Example sentences for: vacuous

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

  • I know, we do this all the time, we did it when Diana died, and we will surely do it again--but it seems mysterious to me that in the first year post-Monica, when so many reporters looked back in embarrassment and agreed that events and group-think had sucked us into dreadful vacuous coverage from which we felt unable to extricate ourselves, the same blind terror of losing audience share could have overtaken assignment editors again.

  • Like Inez Victor, the wife of a vacuous politician in Democracy (1985), she is quickly mastering a "capacity for passive detachment."

  • If you missed our previous links to 1) President's Clinton's vacuous Social Security promise and 2) a summary of the very real tax hikes and benefit cuts proposed by Moynihan and Kerrey, click and .

  • The story's headline--"Feds Triple Health Fraud Cases"--commits the sin of a vacuous comparison, but the body explains that the baseline year for the comparison with current prosecutions is 1993.

  • There are hints on those tapes that we are doing Monica an injustice in regarding her as a vacuous vixen.


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