noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
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But all she felt was a strange emptiness .
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He felt that the emptiness was trying to possess him.
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He stiffened, bracing for the storm, but felt only an emptiness .
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It was a sight which would have left some men feeling pity, but Urquhart felt a chilling emptiness .
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I felt a huge emptiness in which I feared to be dissolved.
fill
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Only the scenery and radio music fill the emptiness .
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The yellowed parchment becomes a light-\#filled emptiness .
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She had filled an emptiness in his life and he knew that he would be devastated if she left now.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of people have a sort of emptiness in their lives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After that they made better progress and managed to slip undetected out into the emptiness .
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He describes the suffering, emptiness , abandonment and loneliness that he is experiencing.
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His parishioners applauded more out of charity than conviction, and the emptiness of the ovation embarrassed both speaker and audience alike.
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Or perhaps it was that recollection, however poignant, was better than emptiness .
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Some vast emptiness seemed to drive him on, a craving for warmth and reassurance.
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The emptiness in which all things revolve is blue, she went on, in her half-waking state.
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We left Lincoln tied to a water pipe in the concrete emptiness of the backyard.