How to Use nothingness in a Sentence

nothingness

noun
  • The sound faded into nothingness.
  • He was staring into nothingness.
  • Fire is hot, rain is wet, and kale cooks down to nothingness.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Where did all of these fear and feelings of nothingness come from?
    — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2022
  • What is true today if not my teeth, my bones, my nothingness?
    — Diane Mehta, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The rest of the time, the watch face was a black rectangle of nothingness.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • From there, the movie around her is soon reduced to a nothingness of its own making.
    — Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The know-nothingness in this country just seems to be getting stronger.
    — David W. Blight, Washington Post, 4 June 2019
  • Along the horizon, the road meets a billow of clouds, then fades to a white nothingness.
    — Judi Ketteler, Good Housekeeping, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Stohr struggled to find the right words to describe nothingness.
    — Linda Robertson, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Our phones now have hundreds of photos on them and videos of just pure baby nothingness.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Out of the nothingness, though, comes loaves-and-fishes abundance.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Stevie didn’t just want the band to go back into a cocoon again, a web of nothingness.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
  • There is not enough Spanx in the world to compress two decades into nothingness.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • There has never been a boyfriend who’s more of a wet lump of nothingness than Christian.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 3 July 2019
  • Each blonde must sit in the dark and confront nothingness and, by extension, death.
    — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
  • What gave rise to such behemoths of nothingness is a mystery.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • This will be the end of your world—the end of ours—the end of the world that the centuries have tethered to nothingness.
    — Jean Cocteau, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • But if high-entropy systems could be sucked into nothingness by black holes, that would not be the case.
    — The Economist, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The moon, appearing about the size of a bowling ball at arm’s length to the crew, hung in the nothingness.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Living inside my body and getting to know my full self is part of my journey from nothingness to joy.
    — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2021
  • All with the goal of replacing the nothingness with… something.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • This song is about the burden of existing beneath a veil of nothingness.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2022
  • Once again, the Twins went away in a rash of nothingness, three runs in the first three innings and zip after that.
    — Patrick Reusse, Star Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
  • And this isn’t the only time herds of dinosaurs have vanished into nothingness.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 30 Apr. 2012
  • Alex struck a match and held it to the note, then tossed the flaming paper into the nothingness where the table had been.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • But this is a portrait of a life filled with the vibrancy of exactly such nothingness.
    — Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Her sentences, always at the shore of some great nothingness, have the intricacies and echoes of a conch shell.
    — Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Between next Monday and the Reds spring opener is a three-week sinkhole of nothingness.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 30 Jan. 2018

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