emptiness

Example Sentences

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Maybe I was too distracted by the nonstop vacations and fancy gifts to notice the emptiness in her eyes.

From Literature

I couldn’t see anything except blackness, or hear anything except a kind of ringing, and all I felt was emptiness everywhere around me.

From Literature

The summer dragged by in a blur of emptiness.

From Literature

That explosion of tomato and garlic, the ooze of cheese, it erased the smell of bleach that had scorched his nostrils; it filled up the hollow emptiness that yawned in his belly.

From Literature

But after I’m done, I still have that yawning emptiness inside of me.

From Literature