hollowness

Example Sentences

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This hollowness is precisely what the curators ask us to consider.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

As the second season of "Severance" nears its finale, the show has become more explicit about cracking open the hollowness of bringing our “whole” or “best” selves to our workplaces.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2025

Unrelenting hollowness robs the film of any impact or meaning.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024

"We try and fill our days with moments of distraction and joke and laugh just to feel something, but overwhelmingly the feeling we have every day is hollowness."

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2024

The hollowness in my chest grows, just like it always does whenever I go somewhere that used to belong to both me and Khalid.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender