Example sentences for: emptiness

How can you use “emptiness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Eder says the prose has "so much that is implicit and hollowed out, so much emptiness between the sentences, that the reader is called upon to enter, invent and rearrange," and with "a shivery economy of means and a dreadful lavishness of effect, Mr. O'Nan advances the horror on parallel tracks."

  • This is the spiritual emptiness Bush and Bradley are talking about.

  • The gatherings, sighs Diller, are "simply a reaction to the emptiness of the current retail political process."

  • On the far side of the range, sheer walls of stone 300 m (1,000 ft) high tower over the plains, where a series of catwalks and carved footpaths wander through old temples and pavilions into the silence and emptiness beyond.

  • When I bend to hear my parents' hearts or lean against a wall to hear my friend's, it's like water in a shell held tightly to the ear: salt blood and ocean emptiness and wind, vena cavae, almost still.


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