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Six example sentences with devoid, each labelled with its topic.
The late canvases are devoid of any human figure, just flat bands of gray meeting at a horizon.
Art
The salt flat stretched for eighty kilometers devoid of trees, buildings or shade, with nothing to judge distance against.
Travel
Hume insisted that a claim devoid of evidence deserves no more assent than a rumor repeated at a crowded market.
Philosophy
The demo was devoid of any melody, forty seconds of drum loops with nothing a listener could hum afterward.
Music
The repository arrived devoid of documentation, so the new engineer spent a week reading tests to learn what each module did.
Technology
The roster was devoid of inside scoring, and every possession ended with a contested jumper from the wing.
Basketball
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- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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