How to Use nothingness in a Sentence

nothingness

noun

• The sound faded into nothingness.
• He was staring into nothingness.
• The rest of the time, the watch face was a black rectangle of nothingness.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Fire is hot, rain is wet, and kale cooks down to nothingness.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 29 Sep. 2020
• Along the horizon, the road meets a billow of clouds, then fades to a white nothingness.
  — Judi Ketteler, Good Housekeeping, 7 Mar. 2023
• We kids weren’t supposed to know about the nothingness.
  — Pamela Jane Bell, WSJ, 13 May 2018
• 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
• Where did all of these fear and feelings of nothingness come from?
  — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2022
• Allow the icy grip of nothingness wash over your whole body.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 7 July 2017
• 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
• The know-nothingness in this country just seems to be getting stronger.
  — David W. Blight, Washington Post, 4 June 2019
• There is not enough Spanx in the world to compress two decades into nothingness.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• The Reds all-or-nothingness took center stage last week.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2020
• There has never been a boyfriend who’s more of a wet lump of nothingness than Christian.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 3 July 2019
• Stohr struggled to find the right words to describe nothingness.
  — Linda Robertson, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• What is true today if not my teeth, my bones, my nothingness?
  — Diane Mehta, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
• Let your eyes cross and the picture becomes mushy gray nothingness.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2018
• Each blonde must sit in the dark and confront nothingness and, by extension, death.
  — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
• Just a vast perfect nothingness known as the event horizon.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2019
• Nixon watched his lead over Humphrey dwindle to nothingness.
  — Ken Hughes, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2019
• That is a lot of nothingness: The painting, produced on a concave panel, is more than 6 feet tall.
  — Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• But if high-entropy systems could be sucked into nothingness by black holes, that would not be the case.
  — The Economist, 14 Mar. 2018
• But what sets Emily apart is that beneath the Bambi-like visage and the sweet ebullience lies a stark void of nothingness.
  — Iva Dixit, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• Between next Monday and the Reds spring opener is a three-week sinkhole of nothingness.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• This song is about the burden of existing beneath a veil of nothingness.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2022
• 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
• There is only one road cutting through the middle of the desert, then a swath of nothingness around it, only some low mountains in the distance.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 15 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024