Sentence examples for an absence from inspiring English sources

An interregnum, sufficiently extended, becomes an absence.

There was the presence of an absence".

But is there such an absence?

There was going to be an absence".

But her presence underlined an absence.

Now there is an absence".

"Lateral": an absence of escalation.

"A devotion to an absence".

This is not an absence of style.

Big Ears was haunted by an absence.

They were an absence, utterly disconnected.