EMPTY in a Sentence

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279 example sentences for EMPTY, such as:

1. Full belies make empty skulls.
2. He hurtled his empty gun at my face.
3. Better half an egg than empty shell.
4. An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
5. The house stands desolate and empty.

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 Meanings and Examples of EMPTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
empty
 a.  containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Our man on the beat saw a light there about two in the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something was amiss.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  We are at a loss as to how he came into the empty house; indeed, the whole affair is a puzzler.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  It was one of four which stood back some little way from the street, two being occupied and two empty.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
5  When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
6  Nothing more is known of them until Mr. Drebber's body was, as recorded, discovered in an empty house in the Brixton Road, many miles from Euston.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
7  The night was so wet that no one was about, so Charpentier dragged the body of his victim into the empty house.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
8  When I got to London my pocket was about empty, and I found that I must turn my hand to something for my living.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
9  In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
10  At this early hour of a June morning the library was empty.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
11  Empty, empty, empty; silent, silent, silent.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
12  She flushed, as if she had spoken in an empty room and someone had stepped out from behind a curtain.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
13  Yet the stage was empty; only the cows moved in the meadows; only the tick of the gramophone needle was heard.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
14  "They come every year," said Mrs. Swithin, ignoring the fact that she spoke to the empty air.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
15  The stage was empty; the actors were still dressing up among the bushes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
16  The benches were empty except for a single solitary figure.
17  Better are small fish than an empty dish.
18  A hundred and fifty empty bottles tumbled onto the floor.
19  An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
20  The "freedom to learn" has become just another one of the government's empty slogans.
21  An empty barrel makes more noise than a full one.
22  Full belies make empty skulls.
23  You have to be empty in order to be full.
24  Bonnie twirled her empty glass in her fingers.
25  He hurtled his empty gun at my face.
26  Better half an egg than empty shell.
27  On any given day in the Houston area, half the hospital beds are empty.
28  The house stands desolate and empty.
29  It's not a good idea to drink on an empty stomach.
30  As it got later, the streets became empty.