How to Use devoid of in a Sentence

devoid of

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  • Their site is clean, devoid of trash.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The door now leads to a room stripped of light, devoid of fresh air.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2025
  • The team has played slow, static, devoid of any ideas.
    Manuel Veth, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Does this line, devoid of context, make sense?
    Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Which isn’t to say the Olympics are devoid of drama.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • That's not to say the story is devoid of emotion.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The seats behind the basket were devoid of fans.
    Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The defense is very much devoid of talent.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The product is down this year, devoid of great teams and short on must-see players.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The space is largely devoid of people.
    Hazlitt, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Some will bemoan a tournament now devoid of blue bloods, but not me.
    Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 24 Mar. 2023
  • This book is free of mustache wax, devoid of vests and cucumbers.
    Max Watman, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The harbor had a derelict air, its large docks empty and the plaza devoid of people.
    Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • People may assume that caves are devoid of life, but that’s simply not the case.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2024
  • From the air, the estuaries look like trees devoid of leaves.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Evenings are dark, devoid of the incessant noises of warmer months, clear and cold.
    Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Fanon's world was devoid of nuance, let alone human agency.
    Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • To think of this gourd as an object devoid of action would be a fatal mistake.
    Andrés Muedano, JSTOR Daily, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The left edge is devoid of buttons, while the top has a couple of microphone holes.
    Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • Does a great man embody the virtue of being devoid of empathy?
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 21 July 2025
  • His failure to acquire impact players in his first two drafts has left the team devoid of depth.
    Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • This movie takes us to a time when things were still and patient, devoid of technology.
    Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The conference is devoid of football blue bloods, which is both a weakness and a strength.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
  • Bryant was considered a flashy dunker, a human highlight reel devoid of a jumper.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 6 June 2025
  • Retailers have found a few ways around it, so people aren’t devoid of options on their rest day.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Apr. 2024
  • This workhorse of the kitchen is so utterly devoid of glamor.
    Treehugger Editors, Treehugger, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The wine tastes juicy and lithe, devoid of heavy tannins, gushing with cranberry and licorice.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The Salmon, widening, seemed almost devoid of fish, and the sky was eerily free of birds.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • That’s not to say that De Sarno’s men’s designs are devoid of drama, of course.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Picking an open area devoid of buildings, trees and animals can prevent the start of a fire.
    Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025

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