Example Sentences

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And that means that the nature of life is this bottomlessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

Even coming to love that same bottomlessness for providing your heart with something certain?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

Lucien’s persistent refrain throughout the book, “I am nothing,” helps us appreciate the bottomlessness of his need.

From New York Times • May 8, 2020

The bottomlessness is part of what lures you back.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2018

The inspection of these chasms brought him a second pulsation of that old horror which he had used to describe to Viviette as produced in him by bottomlessness in the north heaven. 

From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas