Example Sentences

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How lovely it is to record some of this ephemera, to look back on happy, eventless days.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2019

Outside the New York apartment building, two eventless hours passed before a man emerged carrying a plastic bag.

From Reuters • Sep. 22, 2018

There is a town, stores and restaurants and inns, but most famous is the Grand Hotel, the sort of mansard-roof affair where, eons ago, a president spent an eventless August.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2015

It was here that my spacious, eventless “color field” pieces unfurled themselves—“The Light That Fills the World,” “Dark Wind,” “The Farthest Place,” and “The Immeasurable Space of Tones.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 17, 2015

The way was a gray, timeless, eventless tunnel, but at the end of it was the one shining reality—my own wife, my own house in my own street, my own bed.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck