VOID in a Sentence

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For VOID, below is one of 40 sentences:
Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities.

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 Meanings and Examples of VOID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
void
 n.  emptiness; containing nothing; clear or empty a place
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  Still murmuring o'er us, in the lofty void.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  They talked and wrestled in the throes of composition, and felt as if something were happening, really happening, really in the void.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  And thus far it was a life: in the void.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  But she could feel the black void of despair inside him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
6  It was my intention to have stopped there, and to have said nothing of that event which has created a void in my life which the lapse of two years has done little to fill.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
7  The other he tried to slip through hers; but she eluded him nimbly, and Frome's heart, which had swung out over a black void, trembled back to safety.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
8  If one were not a part of the season's fixed routine, one swung unsphered in a void of social non-existence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
9  That lady, though still floating in the void, showed faint symptoms of developing an outline; and in this endeavour she was actively seconded by Mr. Melville Stancy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
10  Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
11  But there was no recent picture, none which suggested the Robert who had gone away five days ago, leaving a void and wilderness behind him.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
12  Nothings, which are enormous in that void.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
13  The kings placed themselves in this void.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
14  One inhales the effluvia of the great black void.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
15  There was a void in his memory, a black spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS
Example Sentence:
1  The change in the law makes the previous agreement null and void.
2  It seemed that nothing could fill the aching black void left by Rachel's death.
3  The court ruled that the claim was null and void.
4  They tried to describe their attempts to fill the void left by their son's death.
5  She stood at the edge of the chasm and stared into the void.
6  Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
7  Running the business helped to fill the void after his wife died.
8  His wife's death left a painful void in his life.
9  If any levels of corruption are proven, it's possible that the elections could be declared null and void.
10  Anyone who is still alive now, is found in a void space, maybe it's under a stairwell.
11  You may think her mind is a total void, but she's actually not devoid of intelligence. She just sounds like an airhead.