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
• 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
• 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
• All with the goal of replacing the nothingness with… something.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Thanks again so much for shedding some light on nothingness.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• Nixon watched his lead over Humphrey dwindle to nothingness.
  — Ken Hughes, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2019
• Near the summit, Mr. Lama had to clear the snow by hand, each step a soft crunch into potential nothingness.
  — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 11 June 2024
• 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
• To say nothing of their familiarity with long stretches of nothingness, the chaos, and violence.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 May 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024