Example Sentences

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An internet obsessive and technologist, Grimes knew that she’d struck a vein of something real in the substanceless expanse of the internet.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025

But all the splendidly illuminated wheat-twirling in the world can’t anchor this substanceless love story in a recognizable human reality, much less lend it the cosmic import the director seems to intend.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2013

For him a powerful, substanceless argument was a disgusting thing: rhetoric without truth was one of the greatest threats to the "good" society.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2010

White House briefings and presidential news conferences have become so ritualized and substanceless that many of the beat reporters have begun exhibiting all the classic symptoms of depression: guilt, worthlessness, pessimism, restlessness, and irritability.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2010

Yet this substanceless number threatens to undermine the simplest operations in mathematics, like multiplication and division.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife