Sentence examples for sort of vacuum from inspiring English sources

What sort of vacuum cleaner is it?

Harvard was just becoming what it is today, a sort of vacuum cleaner.

But Turkey has backed the Free Syrian Army rebels against Assad, and the retreat of the Syrian Army has created a sort of vacuum for the Kurds.

As a result, pay for most public companies' top executives exists in a sort of vacuum, as far as investors are concerned.

Socially, politically, religiously, he lived in a sort of vacuum; at any rate, in a kind of environment that dissolves ordinary prejudices, loyalties, and traditional mental habits.

"I went to the old Heidelberg uptown recently, and I have to say, it seems to be in a sort of vacuum".

"The refugees are in sort of a vacuum in terms of who are the authorities.

In the upper portion of the canvas, where oranges and blues collide, numerous scalloped forms make up a sort of spatial vacuum.

It's long been conventional to regard the gap between the fading of rock'n'roll's 1950s thunderclap and the first landing of the British Invasion in 1964 as a sort of taste vacuum in pop.

William Easterly, a professor of economics at New York University and author of the recent book "The White Man's Burden: How the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good," sees Africa as filling a sort of existential vacuum for Americans struggling in a post-Sept.

This sort of information vacuum frays the nerves of those watching, let alone a 21-year-old within touching distance of his greatest ambition.