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How to use void in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Void means containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled. Example: “Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense.”

Examples of void by meaning

adjectiveContaining nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.

  • Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense.

adjectiveOf no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

  • null and void
  • Taiwan's government says that as the island has never been ruled by the People's Republic of China, its sovereignty claims are void.2022 September 21, Martin Pollard, Ben Blanchard, “China willing to make utmost effort for peaceful 'reunification' with Taiwan”, in...

adjectiveOf a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.

  • In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.2005, Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns
  • The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.2007, Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development

nounAn empty space; a vacuum.

  • Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.

nounA black cat.

  • My little void is so sweet sometimes.
  • Black cat owners often lovingly refer to their dark-haired feline friends as house panthers or ‘voids.’2024 October 31, Marc Vartabedian, quoting Cat Care Society, “'Maybe You’re Bad Luck.' Black Cat Nation Strikes Back”, in The Wall Street...
  • Another added: "Always hiding secrets in their fur, I had to get my void extra shaved due to some medical issues and he wasn't happy about it."2025 May 9, Melissa Fleur Afshar, “Reddit Users Unite Over Black Cats 'Hiding Secrets' in Their Fur”, in The Wall Street Journal

nounAn empty place; a location that has nothing useful.

  • It will be used to fill voids at these locations which will then be used for housing developments.2022 December 14, Paul Stephen, “HS2's Dorothy starts to dig second tunnel bore”, in RAIL, number 972, page 23

verbTo make invalid or worthless.

  • He voided the check and returned it.
  • Opening this subassembly will void the warranty; there are no user-serviceable parts inside it.

verbSynonym of empty (verb).

  • void one’s bladder
  • void one’s bowels

More sentences with void

  • Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.From the entry thrust
  • The marriage was declared void by an official annulment.From the entry annulment
  • Because the Chernobyl reactor had a large positive void coefficient, the reaction accelerated rapidly once the coolant water started to boil.From the entry void coefficient
  • Her theory posits that secular religions will rush in to fill the cultural void left by the decline of religiosity.From the entry secular religion
  • The contract becomes void upon expiry.From the entry expiry
  • Rather than sit within total absence our brains spin imagined stimuli out into the void.2025 January 15, Jacob Geller, “Fear of Dark” (2:52 from the start), in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry spin
  • And so the followers of Seferis, although they inherit a method, practice an unmethod, a methodological void.2021, Stathis Gourgouris, Dream Nation. From the entry nonplace
  • In turn, LNER had to rejig its timetables to fill the void and keep Hull served.2020 April 8, Philip Haigh, “Out of the Current Crisis We could See Meaningful Changes”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer…. From the entry rejig
  • Our initial experience of social distancing and the silence of coronatime seemed to void life.2020 September 22, Vivienne Bozalek, Denise Newfield, Nike Romano, Lieve Carette, Katharine Naidu, Veronica Mitchell, Alex Noble…. From the entry coronatime
  • The hipster pastor is dead, and into the void strides someone new.2017 August 7, Sam Schube, “Hypepriests: The Grail-Wearing Pastors Who Dress Like Justin Bieber”, in GQ, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast…. From the entry hypepriest
  • People talk about filling the void as if it's a bad thing.2016 May 9, Greg Cohen, “Daesong Heavy Industries” (7:38 from the start), in American Dad!, season 13, episode 15, spoken by Roger (Seth…. From the entry grok
  • There was no vesicoureteral reflux on voiding cystourethrography ( Figure 2(a) ).2015 June 3, Shashi Verma et al., “Megalourethra with Y-Type Duplication of Urethra Presented as Perianal Fistula: A Rare Case Report”, in…. From the entry cystourethrography
  • 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
  • He allowed himself to become a nonentity, a void, a receptacle for the voices of the world.2005, Christopher Paolini, “Visions Near and Far”, in Eldest, page 538. From the entry nonentity
  • For that is all there is: material atoms moving mindlessly in the beingless void of space.1996, Robert Cecil Olby, Companion to the history of modern science. From the entry mindlessly
  • Ravaged and unpetalled, the rose twists its thin stem into the void.1994, Sylvie Germain, The Medusa Child. From the entry unpetalled
  • For into the void has flown the young German driver, Michael Schumacher, in his tetra-colored Benetton-Ford.1994 June 1, Kim Chapin, “Speed Freaks”, in Santa Fe Reporter, volume 19, number 50, Santa Fe, N.M., page 17, columns 1–2. From the entry tetra-colored
  • His void spaces are a criticism of the insipidness of the overly materialistic modern way of life.1983, Kiyoshi Takeyama, “Tadao Andô: Heir to a Tradition,”, in Perspecta, volume 20, page 180. From the entry insipidness
  • But for these two oases, I have lived all these years in an emotional void.1980 August 9, anonymous author, “Inside Burning”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry oasis
  • An everlasting and immitigable nothingness, in the void of black and absolute−"1949, Peter de Vries, chapter 13, in The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, published 1978, page 149. From the entry immitigable
  • Had any of them been dimidiated, tertiated or even decimated, the proposed election was void.1912 May 3rd, F. Madan, “letter to Sir William [Osler]” quoted by Harvey Cushing in The Life of Sir William Osler II (2010), pages 999–1,000. From the entry tertiate
  • So nowadays we just open a tele channel and shout it into the void through a tele bubble?2026, 啊飄 Pew, directed by James Khoo, NA (Facebook post). From the entry tele bubble
  • Sugimori art on a blank void and that attack?2025 January 24, @battlehuntz, Twitter, archived from the original on 10 May 2025. From the entry peam
  • About drawing down on a featureless void.2024 September 8, HarryBlank, “Next to Nothing”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024. From the entry draw
  • No more free feeding for either of them, which is good because the void was also starting to chonk up.2024 June 20, kmrikkari, r/dechonkers, Reddit, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2025. From the entry chonk up
  • There's a void between him and those questions.2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry introspection

Meaning of void

  1. adjective Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
  2. adjective Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
  3. adjective Being without; destitute; devoid.

Full definition of void

Questions about void in a sentence

How do you use void in a sentence?
Void is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense.”
What is a short sentence with void?
“null and void”
What does void mean?
Void means containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.

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