How to Use devoid in a Sentence

devoid

adjective

• The cannery docks were devoid of life in the afternoon heat.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
• But even bars are not devoid of packaging — where else would the ingredient list go?
  — Cotton Codinha, Allure, 28 Apr. 2020
• In South Korea, baseball games are devoid of fans and players can’t spit on the field.
  — Su-Hyun Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2020
• Ah, but the Typhoon is not completely devoid of silliness.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 19 May 2020
• Every day is like the week between Christmas and New Year’s—devoid of time or meaning.
  — Kathryn Kvas, The New Yorker, 13 June 2020
• But, on the ground, plantations of trees crammed together are often eerily barren, devoid of lush vegetation and wildlife.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 11 June 2020
• Outer space is the most noxious of substances: devoid of air and filled with a soup of deadly particles in the form of high-energy photons and energetic bits of atomic nuclei.
  — Christopher Wanjek, Wired, 26 Apr. 2020
• But Lake Placid has also come to a standstill, with many hotels closed and the Adirondack Mountains largely devoid of visitors.
  — Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 1 May 2020
• The drama certainly isn’t devoid of psychology—the logic of behavior is clear and consistent, and the action doesn’t come off as willful symbolism.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 May 2020
• To become a truly great leader, a coach must first be a selfless servant, because all those victories ring hollow unless love for player development is devoid of ego and offered as a humble gift.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 16 May 2020
• But, for the most part, the server room is devoid of life, its processors left to sift through a deluge of data for signs of particles that have traveled across the universe and arrived at the barren Antarctic ice sheet.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 12 June 2020
• The stage is devoid of scenery, with the rear wall of the theater exposed.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Apr. 2022
• The world isn’t full of empty space devoid of things to do.
  — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 26 Feb. 2022
• For the first time since 1963, the Rolling Stones will be devoid of their steady man behind the kit.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
• The 12th man isn't just some cutesy term devoid of meaning.
  — Star Tribune, 7 Sep. 2020
• The 2020 class is devoid of can’t-miss, top-end talent.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• The Denali, at least on the east side of the highway, is devoid of caribou.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
• Dallas was devoid of a hammer in the middle of the field who could play the run top-down.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2020
• The Grand Canyon, a place that appears devoid of human life from the rim, has long brimmed with it.
  — Zachary Petit, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2022
• Fret not, though, if your evening wardrobe is devoid of options in terms of bags.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 9 Jan. 2023
• No scrum of fans chased the ball in the bleachers, which were devoid of Bleacher Creatures.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
• The machine is also devoid of a quickshifter, which, these days, should be par for the course.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2022
• The court ruled that his complaints were devoid of merit.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
• The people make sounds, but the sounds are shapeless, devoid of meaning.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• In a season largely devoid of star tight ends, Waller has been one.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2020
• The surface of the lake, roused to a salt-and-pepper stipple by the rain, was devoid of sailboats or swimmers.
  — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2021
• The process leaves a permanent and raw scar, devoid of topsoil.
  — Madeline Ostrander, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
• Of course, too many places are currently devoid of play.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2020
• What really appealed to me the idea of our experience of that, at the time, was these photographs completely devoid of context.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022
• But the move reflects who Sinema is at her core: devoid of any scrutable ideology but profoundly cynical.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024