How to Use devoid in a Sentence

devoid

adjective

• 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
• The Denali, at least on the east side of the highway, is devoid of caribou.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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 process leaves a permanent and raw scar, devoid of topsoil.
  — Madeline Ostrander, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
• Yet despite the ugly 7–17 record thus far, this isn't a team devoid of talent.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 5 Dec. 2022
• One panel room is equipped so when shades are closed a yellow light bathes the food and leaves it devoid of color.
  — cleveland, 16 May 2022
• If your board is devoid of green or yellow, don’t worry.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• How, billions of years ago, did Earth go from a planet devoid of life to a planet festooned with it?
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
• It’s like being devoid of savings if your car needs a new engine while your house needs a new AC unit.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 22 May 2022
• Perhaps that is the goal of laws like this, to force the different to flee, so that Alabama is devoid of dissent.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 17 May 2022
• The business sector has a track record of being cold and devoid of feelings or emotion.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• Yet even coming off a pair of sub-25 win seasons, this isn’t a roster devoid of talent.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 2 Oct. 2022
• The streets of Kyiv were devoid of civilian life, but the trip to the presidential bunker required wending through a maze of checkpoints.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
• Much of it is fantasy and dull, but in it Steinheil has a strong, compelling voice not devoid of wit and humor.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
• If the area is devoid of vegetation, then the bats will very easily detect the net.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
• The front office also left Drayton devoid of a return game.
  — Tom Silverstein, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2022
• The city’s landscape, usually devoid of icy sculptures, was dotted with snow forts and snowmen — one of which was in the back of a pickup truck parked in front of the Alamo.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2022
• And the good life is not devoid of disappointments, failures and struggles.
  — Richard J. McNally, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
• And medieval soldiers who came through the area in wartimes recorded entire cities devoid of people.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2022
• The trail was almost entirely devoid of people, the forest silent save the roaring of water.
  — oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2022
• Great expanses of cracking mud, half a mile wide, stretch beyond the river banks, devoid of a single plant or blade of grass.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 May 2022
• But one of the show’s most striking displays is entirely devoid of people.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• Lane captured the young plantings of elms in landscape portraits, which show how Castine at the time was devoid of a tree canopy after decades of clear-cutting and war.
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• The FBoys supposedly lick their wounds and live in a Survivor-style compound called Limbro devoid of any perks.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 27 July 2022
• The annual event, which didn’t take place last year, was devoid of the quintessential class photo.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 7 Mar. 2022
• Bagno Arenauta, the beach club, is 100 percent devoid of flash, which is precisely the point.
  — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024