Examples of nothingness in a Sentence

He was staring into nothingness. The sound faded into nothingness.

Recent Examples on the Web What gave rise to such behemoths of nothingness is a mystery. — New York Times, 12 May 2022 It’s the very sense of nothingness, of frantic agitation that surrounds and even distracts from the action, that is the movie’s main distinction. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022 Here's the exciting, true-nothingness part about doing nothing: If another card comes addressed only to you, then, so what. — Washington Post, 30 May 2021 As in Zen, the pursuit of nothingness calms the mind. — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022 There were glimmers of hope followed by long periods of nothingness, injuries. — Sarah Barker, Outside Online, 30 Nov. 2020 That is because the universe was born in a sea of nothingness without the space and time where sound can exist. — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2022 For a very different read on mapping during the pandemic, try Shannon Mattern’s piece on mapping erasure and nothingness at Places Journal. — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2017 With the advent of Christianity, nothingness becomes a new kind of problem, and a more pressing one. — Max Norman, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022 See More

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