How to Use lacuna in a Sentence

lacuna

noun

• She found a lacuna in the historical record.
• The lacuna bespeaks incuriosity about the wife of the great man, which Merz was at no pains to correct.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• The hollow is rich and generative, a lacuna of a kind Ball has mastered.
  — Ellie Robins, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• No one has undertaken a chronicle from Alaric’s point of view, a lacuna that makes this book worthwhile—and hard to pull off.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• The rest of Marie’s biography is an open conjecture, and Groff rides into that lacuna on a noble steed.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
• The lacuna is a reminder: Despite the emerging consensus that the GOP is a working-class party, there is little agreement on what such a party should stand for.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 3 Apr. 2021
• But the survey had a gaping lacuna: it was conducted by phone only in English or Spanish.
  — Amy Yee, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2021
• Learning softer skills and managerial skills will help fill the lacuna.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 5 May 2020
• Obviously the giant lacuna in that sort of analysis is that there was segregation in the country, the status of women, status of gay people, etc.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
• The alternative outcome goes unmentioned thanks to a giant lacuna that exists in half of America’s mental landscape, and in the mental landscape of 99% of the media.
  — WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• There has always been a lacuna among the books, maps and newspaper clippings that comprise the neighborhood history collection and that’s a piece of one of Georgetown’s most famous houses: the Key Mansion.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• But at least part of this outrage lacuna must be attributable to the distorting effects of partisanship.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
• It’s a surprising lacuna in the work of a scholar who seems to have mined every newspaper report, memoir, living resident, and private archive of anyone who ever stayed at the hotel.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• In a wide-ranging and learned reflection, drawing on great Russian and early Christian thinkers, there is one huge lacuna: any negative reference to the communist regime which in 1923 closed Sarov’s once-magnificent monastery and its nine churches.
  — The Economist, 11 Aug. 2019
• Perhaps these lacunae are meant to unsettle plaintiffs in Sierra Club and the half-dozen other lawsuits challenging Mr Trump’s emergency cash transfer by executive fiat.
  — S.m. | New York, The Economist, 29 July 2019
• One lacuna in this report is the lack of attention to agricultural habitats as an important repository of bird diversity.
  — Neha Jain, Quartz India, 24 Feb. 2020
• The discovery of that lacuna yielded the discoveries of more gaps, as Mrs. Holladay gradually realized the near-total absence of women from art museums and art history books.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• The constitutional prohibition on people under the age of 35 serving as president is just one of these weird lacuna that was handed down to us from the 18th century but that nobody would seriously propose creating today if not for status quo bias.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
• The reason is misinformation for sure, and more fundamentally a lacuna in thinking prompted by an emotional reaction.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• With a lacuna of primary evidence, Chinese historians have turned to alternate sources including fascinating insights drawn from song lyrics and poetry.
  — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian, 28 Nov. 2019
• This lacuna reflects a widespread documentary practice that’s also a conventional lapse in aesthetic judgment.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024