How to use emptiness in a sentence

More sentences with emptiness

• Jake had gone from the center of a teeming throng of people to the solitudinous emptiness of his lonely house.From the entry solitudinous
• No amount of shopping truly helps with emptiness, loneliness or sorrow.2021 April, Brigid Lowry, “November: Living Simply”, in A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself: & Other Essays, Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry dollarbuck
• I only knew a canyon of vast quaking emptiness with a river of the roughest, churniest despair.2018, Pepper Winters, The Girl & Her Ren. From the entry churny
• Slowly I began to fill up some of the emptiness inside—writing had become my lifeline.2012, Aaron Dixon, My People Are Rising, Haymarket Books, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry lifeline
• Its headlights whacked up and then gracefully swept down into emptiness.2012, L. Ron Hubbard, Mouthpiece. From the entry whack up
• This man knows the void; he shows how urban emptiness can be an active, malevolent, urbicidal force.2006, Marshall Berman, On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square, Random House, →ISBN, page xxxiv, →ISBN. From the entry urbicidal
• Affluenza has also been more personally identified by unmanageable stress and pervasive feelings of emptiness.2003, Dale P. Andrews, “Preaching a Just Word in Privileged Pulpits: Healing Affluenza”, in André Resner, Jr., editor, Just Preaching…. From the entry affluenza
• I hate this emptiness and the redundancy of eating burgs at Burger Town.2002, Ricard Marx Weinraub, Wonder Bread Hill, page 6. From the entry burg
• It’s the emptiness; there’s no one on the street at that time, along the river.1997, Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors. From the entry give someone the creeps
• He churned the emptiness of my stomach, and stirred the fury of my famishment.1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, New York: Nan A. Talese, published 1992, Section 1, Book 5, Chapter 2, p. 329. From the entry famishment
• They could fall asleep at night, physically exhausted from exercise, too tired to think about the emptiness.1987 September, Katherine Stone, Roommates, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, page 306. From the entry nondaring
• Explorers reached the Galaxy's very edge, and looked estimatingly across the emptiness toward other island universes.1954, Murray Leinster, The Forgotten Planet. From the entry estimatingly
• There, in that emptiness, the typhoon is organising.2023, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, Jonathan Cape, page 23. From the entry Marshall Islands
• Is your name Oscar Lois Anderson?' Her Dalek voice echoed eerily through the black emptiness of the warehouse.2005, P. D. Shelley, Sugar and Spice, page 171. From the entry Dalek voice
• This "something sonly" is the vacuum of our hearts — a yearning emptiness that strains to be filled with Christ.2003, Calvin Miller, A Hunger for the Holy. From the entry sonly
• The ritual hand-bell or ghanta represents the feminine principle of the 'Perfection of Wisdom' (Skt. prajna-paramita), which directly realizes emptiness.2003, The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols, Serindia Publications, Inc, page 92. From the entry ghanta
• Beyond the town, emptiness stretches to the horizon.[1992, Jim Reynolds, The Outer Path: Finding my way in Tibet, Sunnyvale, Cali.: Fair Oaks Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90. From the entry Gêrzê
• In fact, the most uncanny contemporary liminal spaces combine the familiarity of, say, a New York City tourist magnet with an unnatural emptiness.2022 November 1, Jake Pitre, “The Eerie Comfort of Liminal Spaces”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry liminal space
• When introjects are weak (or even absent), an anaclitic personality configuration results, characterized by dependency, insecurity, and feelings of helplessness and emptiness.2003, Theodore Millon, Melvin J. Lerner, Irving B. Weiner, Handbook of Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, page 123. From the entry anaclitic
• And the chosen helper, this splash of colour, will it outblossom the greyness of discord, the black of mourning and the white of restrained emptiness?1993, Malcolm Green, The Golden Bomb: Phantastic German Expressionist Stories, page 146. From the entry outblossom
• He touched her shoulder and she lifted herself on her elbows, head tipped up to peer at him, the eyes black-shadowed emptiness.1965 October 1, Frank Herbert, “Book I: Dune”, in Dune, Philadelphia, Pa.: Chilton Book Company; [Toronto], Ont.: Thomas Nelson & Sons…. From the entry s'
• Yet neither could they long avoid it, for the emptiness of the roads, stretching unmarched for mile after silent mile, bore witness to the truth of it.2014, Jack Whyte, Merlyn. From the entry unmarched
• What isn’t discussed much is the subject of top drop, which doesn't usually manifest itself as visually as crying, but commonly involves feelings of emptiness and being alone.2013, Morpheous, chapter 6, in How to Be Kinky: A Beginner's Guide to BDSM, Green Candy Press, page 159. From the entry top drop
• Barely a bird and definitely none of my target species greeted the morning so I cut my losses and headed north through the staggeringly vast emptiness of the Outback.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 254. From the entry outback
• He grasps the fourfold emptiness disclosed in the words: "I am nowhere a somewhatness for any one, and nowhere for me is there a somewhatness of any one."Quoted in: 1998, Henry Clarke Warren, Buddhism in Translations (page 145). From the entry somewhatness
• Here you see your life as a watercolorist's work: a fluid smear of selves laid over and shimmering against a blank background, what Buddhists call shunyata, emptiness or basic openness.2001, Barbara Hurd, Stirring the mud: on swamps, bogs, and human imagination, page 43. From the entry oozle

Meaning of emptiness

1. noun The state or feeling of being empty; an emotion that combines hollowness, numbness, disconnection and a lack of meaning in life, resulting in existential boredom, ennui or depression.
2. noun A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence.
3. noun A nonexistence; a lack of existence.

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Questions about emptiness in a sentence

How do you use emptiness in a sentence?

Emptiness is used as a noun. For example: “Jake had gone from the center of a teeming throng of people to the solitudinous emptiness of his lonely house.”

What is a short sentence with emptiness?

“Beyond the town, emptiness stretches to the horizon.”

What does emptiness mean?

Emptiness means the state or feeling of being empty; an emotion that combines hollowness, numbness, disconnection and a lack of meaning in life, resulting in existential boredom, ennui or depression.