We found 26 examples of how to use devoid in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 26.
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1. | We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. | |
2. | The room was devoid of furniture. | |
3. | The man was devoid of such human feelings as sympathy. | |
4. | He is devoid of common sense. | |
5. | He is devoid of human feeling. | |
6. | He is devoid of humor. | |
7. | He was devoid of human feeling. | |
8. | We all thought she was devoid of sense. | |
9. | She is devoid of common sense. | |
10. | The world which I saw in my dream was a peaceful world devoid of war. | |
11. | We sometimes disparagingly call noise, music that's insignificant and devoid of any charm. | |
12. | The stylists, in all their pompous, branded majesty, doubted that the girl who had just approached them was fixable: her clothes were greasy, tattered, and devoid of rhinestones and logos. | |
13. | These people are desperate and devoid of hope. | |
14. | A language is the foremost expression or artifact of any national culture, hence a language that isn't an expression of any particular heritage, is doomed to remain a mere universalist manifestation devoid of concrete daily usage. | |
15. | Selfish means devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. | |
16. | Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation. | |
17. | Tom is devoid of common sense. | |
18. | I admit that if it weren't for him, the next ten years of my life would have been empty and devoid of purpose. | |
19. | I'm completely devoid of illusions about this. | |
20. | The fishery remained empty and devoid of fish for many centuries. | |
21. | Without you my life would be devoid of meaning. | |
22. | Now, the streets are silent and empty, devoid of bustling tables of customers enjoying the city's famed culinary pleasures. | |
23. | Mentally the Third Men were indeed very unlike their predecessors. Their intelligence was in some ways no less agile; but it was more cunning than intellectual, more practical than theoretical. They were interested more in the world of sense-experience than in the world of abstract reason, and again far more in living things than in the lifeless. They excelled in certain kinds of art, and indeed also in some fields of science. But they were led into science more through practical, aesthetic or religious needs than through intellectual curiosity. In mathematics, for instance (helped greatly by the duodecimal system, which resulted from their having twelve fingers), they became wonderful calculators; yet they never had the curiosity to inquire into the essential nature of number. Nor, in physics, were they ever led to discover the more obscure properties of space. They were, indeed, strangely devoid of curiosity. Hence, though sometimes capable of a penetrating mystical intuition, they never seriously disciplined themselves under philosophy, nor tried to relate their mystical intuitions with the rest of their experience. | |
24. | To her, life seems hard and devoid of a future. | |
25. | Life to her seems hard and devoid of a future. |