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

As we sat in her apartment, I was perplexed by the airy bites, which seemed like little nuggets of fried nothingness.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

“That’s what baseball’s all about. These long periods of nothing happening and then bursts of action. I wanted to tease out those passages of nothingness and show that there’s actually a lot happening.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

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

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

And there is a great deal of this nothingness until you get to the next bit of something.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson