Example Sentences

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While undeniably fun, there’s a vacuousness to them, ungrounded as they are in place or message—empty calories expelled as quickly as they’re digested.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Let's place the vacuousness of George's sentiment in generous terms.

From Salon • May 6, 2023

With so much opportunity, vacuousness fills the gaps, and exploitation follows.

From Slate • May 5, 2023

The play takes place in the office reception of “la junta,” a liminal space that conveys the timeless vacuousness of bureaucratic hellscapes.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2022

Only Reba, with her light pimply skin and deferential manner, looked as though her simplicity might also be vacuousness.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison