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adjective

devoid

completely wanting or lacking

In a sentence

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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