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Example sentences for "empty"

Lexicographically close words:
empties; emptily; emptiness; emption; emptive; emptying; empurpled; empyema; empyre; empyreal
  1. What France will gain by the change beyond openings for Frenchmen and the glory of an extended colonial empire, it is hard to imagine, but empty glory seems to satisfy most countries greedy of conquest.

  2. The jugglers are usually poor, the production of fire from the mouth, of water from an empty jar, and so on, forming stock items.

  3. Do not be surprised if you are ushered into an apparently empty room, furnished after the Moorish manner with a strip of richly coloured carpet down the centre, and mattresses round the edge.

  4. For thirteen days they have tramped thus, carrying that chain, holding it up by their hands to save their shoulders, and two empty rings still threaded on show that when they started they numbered eight.

  5. The plan eventually adopted was to split up the orders for tools among the various manufacturers and to give the manufacture of the empty chests to prison labor at Fort Leavenworth, where the tools were to be shipped and packed in the chests.

  6. Empty grenades are first completely immersed in a shallow hot-water bath, shown on extreme left in photo.

  7. Other geniuses of the trenches took empty cannon cartridges and, setting them up as ground mortars, succeeded in throwing bombs from them across No Man's Land into the enemy ranks.

  8. In this operation the recoil of each discharge ejects the empty shell and loads in a fresh one.

  9. Its empty weight is about 30 pounds, and it contains a charge of about 30 pounds of gas.

  10. From the trucks the empty shell were lifted by hand to a belt conveyor and the conveyor carried the shell slowly through a room kept cold by artificial refrigeration.

  11. In these facts it will be seen that the numbers of empty shell delivered to the plant was far less than the number required to accommodate the gas production.

  12. The office force of a large corporation learned of this fact and got permission to fill the empty space in some of the containers with tobacco.

  13. Inspected empty shell, as shown inverted on the left in the foreground, are placed on small filling trucks, shown in the right middle ground, and run under filling machine.

  14. The empty shell, after being inspected, were loaded on trucks, together with the proper number of loaded boosters.

  15. He only lives on semolina coarse, And empty is his paunch, all slack and limp.

  16. And as the faithful lover by his loved one's empty seat Knows that the wind of love may change e'er once again they meet, So to this sad foreboding do fancied griefs appear As he who has most cause to love has too most cause for fear.

  17. Flee from thy thoughts, for they have wings, Whose light ambition lifts Thy soul to empty altitudes, Where purpose veers and drifts.

  18. When the sawmill was empty the Green Mountain Boys marched their prisoners into it, and loosened their bonds so that they could be fairly comfortable.

  19. He gave a few orders, and the long-boat swung gently up to an empty float, and he and the man next to him, slipping on their jackets and making sure that their pistols slid easily from their belts, stepped lightly to the float.

  20. They met with no resistance; for the most part these woods and shores were as empty of men as the day when Henryk Hudson first sailed up the river that bears his name.

  21. The town must be pretty empty by now," he said.

  22. The boy couldn't understand what became of the food and how it happened that he always found the basket empty when he returned for it the next day.

  23. Because of her reputation for speed, she received freightage of six pounds sterling per ton while British ships rode at anchor with empty holds or were glad to sail at three pounds ten per ton.

  24. It was win or lose for all hands--now a handsome fortune or again an empty hold and pockets likewise.

  25. The ocean was empty of the stanch schooners which had raced home with lee rails awash to cheer waiting wives and sweethearts.

  26. It is a comedy of manners based on the old antagonism between vulgar ignorant energy and ability on the one side, and lazy empty birth and breeding on the other; embodied in Poirier, a wealthy shopkeeper, and M.

  27. One year he adopted Kant's Christian name Immanuel in transport over his works, the next he called the great philosopher "an empty nut, and moreover hard to crack.

  28. Thus, matter is like an empty schedule and a wax tablet; whereas form is like a painted shape and words set down, from which the reader reaches the end of science.

  29. In Caxton's print, it is--'The compleint of Chaucer vnto his empty purse.

  30. The compleynt of Chaucer vnto his empty purse.

  31. It's empty swagger to say that I wish to GOD I'd the chance of giving my life to get him back for you.

  32. The room seemed to empty like a wash-bowl.

  33. Next he filled his cigarette case, tossed the empty box thoughtfully into the waste basket, and settled the case in his vest pocket.

  34. Every cry from the street proclaimed the sergeant's murder in the empty house.

  35. The spurs clinked again on the verandah, the book dropped over the way, the governess disappeared from view; and Millicent glanced from the empty door to the wearer of the spurs.

  36. At length, on turning a corner, we came upon another drill-trousered, pith-helmeted gentleman in the gateway of an empty house.

  37. The church had been empty when I entered it.

  38. And there was the empty safe, wide open, with the sun shining into it like a bull's-eye lantern.

  39. And indeed when I returned to the spot, in my clothes, an hour later, there was no sign of the police in the road; and I was enabled to slip into the empty house unobserved.

  40. She passed her candle over the untouched bed; she poked it into the empty corner; and it was some minutes before she could bring herself to quit the deserted room that filled her with so shrewd a sense of personal satisfaction.

  41. I had a milkman to dodge as I made my escape from the garden of the empty house.

  42. He prised up the log, saw the empty hole and understood what must have been hidden there.

  43. They could search the berths, empty out the potato sacks--Nell sincerely hoped they wouldn't because of the potatoes!

  44. All you've got in the world are your two empty hands.

  45. The big decks were entirely empty of people.

  46. They climbed down into the empty cow-pastures, and there all her uneasiness returned.

  47. At the farthest end was an empty platform; unpainted benches, borrowed chairs, an uneven floor, blotches on the ceiling, lamps that smoked.

  48. They went along the broad, empty streets, which she instantly recognized from his description.

  49. The silence of the vast empty plain seemed to work its way slowly, steadily in toward the little patch of light set in its midst.

  50. Baggage vans, empty and curiously noisy, recklessly jolted along, careening ill-poised and light without their wonted burdens.

  51. Its slim resources admitted of no permanent occupation of the town, and the empty glory of the capture of Roanoke City would have been offset by the disastrous necessity of the evacuation of the post.

  52. Bankrupt in all he held dear, he shrank from seeming to beg the sheer empty bounty of her sympathy.

  53. All knew that her widow's weeds had been but an empty form--what significance could the fact possess that they were worn for a time as a concession to convention, then laid aside?

  54. Harbor Jim did not rise to greet me but with a motion of his hand expressed his desire that I should remove my wet coat and take the empty chair.

  55. Given a pile of books and an empty floor space, their imagination needs no mechanical models of real locomotives; or, to be more correct, they enjoy the make-believe with quite as great a zest.

  56. He began to empty the bag of all its contents.

  57. I'm glad that you sent the scamp empty away, but, between you and me, the loss wouldn't have been a very serious one if you had given him what he wanted.

  58. On this occasion in saying so I do not think that I am using an empty form of words.

  59. It forces compressed air into the tanks the more quickly to empty them of water.

  60. In a few minutes the tank was empty and the divers stepped out into the ship, freed from the oppressive weight of water.

  61. Empty the tanks and rise to the surface," said the professor.

  62. He slowed down the engine and started the powerful pumps that were to empty the tanks.

  63. Two minutes later, under the buoyancy of her empty tanks, the Porpoise lay floating on the top of the waves, under the shining stars.

  64. Then he set the pump to work to empty the tank.

  65. Can't we empty the tanks and rise to the surface?

  66. I stood in the silent, empty parlour, and looked on the familiar things with a sense of desolation, of something lost and gone, which I could not understand.

  67. A shattered stool, broken in a frolic, and half a dozen empty wine-skins strewed the floor, and helped to give the place an air of untidiness and disorder.

  68. The only living thing to be seen was a hound which roamed about restlessly, now gazing at the empty hearth now lying down with pricked cars and watchful eyes.

  69. The seats against either wall were empty, the recesses of the windows empty too.

  70. Empty grew the barns and store-rooms, the cellars and magazines.

  71. The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empty crib.

  72. There it lay, empty and without a cork, and felt strangely unwell, as if it wanted something, it could not tell what.

  73. The others nodded, and picked up the empty feather dress and took care of it.

  74. And her tears and prayers sounded like an echo in the dark empty space that surrounded the tormented captive soul, and the unhoped-for love from above conquered her, for an angel was weeping for her.

  75. He wrote the name of his betrothed, and his own name, and that of the ship, and put the leaf in an empty bottle that happened to be at hand: he corked it firmly down, and threw it out into the foaming sea.

  76. He loved neither the English governess-novels, nor the French ones, which he called a mixture of empty wind and raisin-stalks: he wanted biographies and descriptions of the wonders of the world.

  77. Alone she went through the empty great hall into the next chamber.

  78. He could do more than merely hunt the stag and empty the wine-can.

  79. He had the bag, empty as yet, clutched tightly in one hand, while the other was within easy reach of a cracked pitcher full of water standing on the floor near the window.

  80. By the way, lad, did you sell the empty wine-bottles?

  81. Moore, rarely puzzled to understand how his empty cupboard could have furnished the refreshment Buster had just put before them.

  82. The old woman kept the girls hard at work, from morning till night, spinning gold flax into yarn, and when one distaff was empty another was given them, so they had no rest.

  83. Deep silence reigned everywhere, and at last, tired of roaming through empty rooms and galleries, he stopped in a room smaller than the rest, where a clear fire was burning and a couch was drawn up closely to it.

  84. He returned, and ordered his men to go into the neighboring villages and buy nineteen mules, and thirty-eight leather jars, all empty except one, which was full of oil.

  85. This emotion of his was like some empty space of horror opened up between him and Nicholas; Nicky being the only one of his family who was as yet aware of its existence.

  86. That was what had made the horror of the empty space that separated them.

  87. Their books stood in his bookcase; they laid their manuscripts on his writing table and left them there; they claimed his empty spaces for the hanging of their pictures yet unsold.

  88. Anthony's house was empty for the time being of all its children except Dorothea.

  89. What he could not stand was that empty spiritual space between him and Nicky.

  90. And every day the empty spiritual space between him and Michael widened.

  91. Again he felt the horror of the great empty space opened up between him and Nicky, deep and still and soundless, but for the two words: "Not yet.


  92. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "empty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absurd; aimless; airy; arid; asinine; awkward; bare; barren; baseless; blah; bland; blank; bleached; bleed; bloodless; blow; bootless; broach; callow; calm; castrate; characterless; clean; clear; cold; colorless; dead; decant; deceptive; defecate; deplete; desert; deserted; desolate; destitute; devoid; discharge; dishonest; disingenuous; dismal; draft; drain; draw; dreary; dry; dull; dumb; dump; dusty; effete; elephantine; eliminate; empty; evacuate; exhaust; exhausted; expressionless; fade; fallacious; famished; fasting; fatuous; featureless; feckless; fishy; flat; flatulent; flimsy; flow; flush; fond; foolish; free; fribble; frivolous; frothy; fruitless; futile; garbled; gauche; glassy; green; groping; groundless; gush; gut; heavy; hollow; hungering; hungry; idle; ignorant; illusive; impassive; impoverished; inadequate; inane; ineffective; ineffectual; inexperienced; innocent; inoperative; insignificant; insincere; insipid; invalid; jejune; jesuitical; leaden; let; lifeless; light; meaningless; milk; naive; nirvanic; nugatory; null; oblivious; otiose; outflow; pale; pallid; passive; pedestrian; pipette; plausible; plodding; pointless; poky; ponderous; pound; pour; pump; purge; purposeless; ravenous; raw; relaxed; remove; scour; scrambled; senseless; shallow; silly; simple; siphon; slender; slight; slow; sluice; solemn; sophistical; specious; spew; spiritless; spout; spurt; stark; starved; sterile; stiff; stodgy; stuffy; suck; superficial; surge; tap; tasteless; tedious; tentative; thoughtless; tip; tranquil; trifling; trite; trivial; unavailing; uncandid; uncomprehending; unenlightened; unfamiliar; unfilled; unfounded; ungrounded; unilluminated; uninformed; uninitiated; unintelligent; unknowing; unload; unoccupied; unreasoning; unrelieved; unripe; unsupportable; unsupported; unsure; unsustained; untenable; unthinking; unversed; unwarranted; useless; vacant; vacate; vacuity; vacuous; vague; vain; vapid; vent; voiceless; void; vomit; voracious; well; white; windy; wolfish; wooden


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    empty bottle; empty chair; empty house; empty room; empty space; empty stomach