Sentence examples for that they were devoid of from inspiring English sources

An early complaint of his yachts was that they were devoid of manual labor.

Mr. Buren, who actually patented the exact width of the stripes (8.7 centimeters or 3.4251968503937 inches) admitted then (some 30 years ago) that they were devoid of any intrinsic merit as visual objects.

The in vitro non-clinical toxicity study carried out in both seaweed extracts suggests that they were devoid of cytotoxic, mutagenic, and genotoxic effects.

The advertisements are striking in that they are devoid of any overt attacks on opponents.

A further weakness with the Millennium Development Goals is that they are devoid of strategy; their only remedy is more aid.

I don't want to say that they're devoid of character, but certainly I don't think character depth and complication is high on their list.

The extraterrestrial intruders look and sound just like their victims except that they are devoid of any human emotion or feeling.

Re "New Life for Networks" (news analysis, front page, Feb. 21), about a federal appeals court ruling that could lead to a reduction or an end of limits on the ownership of TV stations: The reason the networks are dying is that they are devoid of any true expression.

The very same blankness that Hitchcock sought from Kim Novak (and got from Tippi Hedren), his movies themselves provide — not that they're devoid of emotion or thought, character or idea, but that, above all, they self-consciously represent and exult in the seemingly boundless power of the cinema itself.

A major advantage of the ADC maps is that they are devoid of T2 effects that may mimic or obscure lesions on DWI images.

Another potential critique of the synthesis of recommendations (as in this proof-of-concept study) is that they are devoid of context.