nothingness

Example Sentences

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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

Just a carefully curated exercise in nothingness, presented as importance.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

I want it to almost feel like nothingness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

Old sceptics, hard-bitten by a quarter of a century of nothingness, were beginning to turn.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

He would never have been happy with her—life would be gossamer, all his days merging into one long sheer sheet of nothingness.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie