Example sentences for: emptiness

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

  • In these magnificent stretches of wilderness — the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, the huge, silent redwood forests, and the awe-inspiring emptiness of the desert — you can begin to recapture the adventurous spirit of the earliest American experience.

  • 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."

  • Graham constantly discovers new reserves of emptiness.

  • It ill behooves us to criticize its emptiness, for we all utter Good morning, Good afternoon, Goodby, How are you?, Hello , and numerous other salutational and valedictory remarks in the course of the day.

  • His face scanned the bland emptiness of the full sky.


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