nothingness
Example Sentences
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Kuhn, Schiller writes, understood “the tension between the social so-called nothingness of old age and its vibrant realities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Hanna’s grief for Erik is the key to her art, but so is the nothingness he seems to have disappeared into.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The moon, appearing about the size of a bowling ball at arm’s length to the crew, hung in the nothingness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Kelson’s memento mori, in its way, adds dignity to what is otherwise a sentence to nothingness.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
At last, but how no one ever tried to explain, two children were born to this shapeless nothingness.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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