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Example sentences for "emptily"

Lexicographically close words:
empted; emptie; emptied; emptier; empties; emptiness; emption; emptive; empty; emptying
  1. His body throbbed with pain and nausea wrenched emptily at the muscles of his stomach.

  2. In the faint pink reflection of the Glo-Wave lighter his face was emptily placid, a faint smile twisting the corners of his lips.

  3. The invalid groaned emptily before answering in wan and wasted-away tone.

  4. The pause each time she saw it now became longer, more deliberate, more inviting, more emptily unfilled.

  5. Thou, who didst emptily thy happiness seek In pleasure, art finding thy pleasure in happiness.

  6. Had there been a steady breeze it would not have been so bad, but the Ghost was rolling emptily in a long sea, and with each roll the canvas flapped and boomed and the halyards slacked and jerked taut.

  7. The spritsail flapped emptily and the boat righted to an even keel, causing the two men swiftly to change position.

  8. You figure that empty mean street, emptily echoing to my footsteps--no soul awake and audible but me.

  9. And soon the machines must have exhausted their feed of ink and paper, and thumped and banged and rattled emptily amidst the general quiet.

  10. The Elsinore, without the steadying of her canvas, rolls emptily and drifts a lunatic course.

  11. The door swung emptily back and forth to the rolling of the Elsinore, and no man knew but what, just inside, with that heavy, hacking knife upraised, lurked the steward.

  12. The child snatched the dying man's hand; it faintly grew to his grasp; but on the other side of the bed, the other hand now also emptily lifted itself and emptily caught, as if at some other childish fingers.

  13. The sound gave me new strength, and I tugged at my collar till it burst away from the stud and remained emptily in Grayle's hands while I struggled to my feet.

  14. He must have guessed, I should have thought, that my mission overnight had failed, but I could see, when we met, that he and his wife were emptily hoping.

  15. The sea still stretched emptily before him; the dotting sails still unchanged and distant.

  16. The sails bellied emptily overhead, and Captain Warfield grunted his disgust.

  17. On this night, close-hauled, her big mainsail preposterously flattened down, her luffs pulsing emptily on the lift of each smooth swell, she was sliding an easy four knots through the water on the veriest whisper of a breeze.

  18. She, too, soared high, but not so high as the quarry, and her teeth clipped emptily together with a metallic snap.

  19. The hand was jerked back, and the teeth came together emptily with a sharp click.

  20. The only object that met Cass's eye was a man's stiff, tall hat, lying emptily and vacantly in the grass.

  21. The window, the table, and even the scant toilette utensils were filled with the flowers of yesterday, some of them withered and dry; the white gown of the little chorister was hanging emptily against the wall.

  22. When a man so spat, he stopped laughing abruptly, straightened his face, and stared emptily at the rusty stove until further inquisition developed some other preposterous escapade in Bob's jail career.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emptily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    heavily; slowly; superficially