Example Sentences

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To that end, this weekend is all about tidbits, the only kind of viewing that fits during a time of both busyness and vacantness, of being both off and on.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Windows stared with that vacantness peculiar to deserted houses.

From The Last Trail by Grey, Zane

In connection with the preceding symptom will generally be found, instead of that natural brilliance of expression in the eyes and countenance, an unnatural dullness and vacantness altogether foreign to childhood.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

It was large, barn-like in its vacantness, with a few little tables, each surrounded by a group of chairs, like chickens crowded about a hen.

From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William