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How to use empty in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, verb, noun

Empty means devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant. Example: “Empty cow rates have increased in recent years.”

Examples of empty by meaning

adjectiveDevoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.

  • an empty purse
  • an empty jug
  • an empty stomach

adjectiveDestitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.

  • empty words, or threats

adjectiveDestitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.

  • an empty coxcomb

adjectiveNot pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.

  • Empty cow rates have increased in recent years.

adjectiveProducing nothing; unfruitful.

  • an empty vine

adjectiveLacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.

  • Grotesquely vegetal, excessively oaked, empty wines were routinely produced in the mid-1980s.1993, Robert M. Parker, Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, page 967

verbTo make empty; to remove the contents of.

  • to empty a well or a cistern
  • The cinema emptied quickly after the end of the film.
  • The suspected thief was requested to empty her pockets.

verbOf a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.

  • Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.

More sentences with empty

  • In unary and k-adic notation in general, zero is the empty string.From the entry zero
  • The place is empty; we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.From the entry beat
  • Empty stomachs lead to acidity and leave a sour taste in the mouth.From the entry acidity
  • He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."From the entry done
  • He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.From the entry hop
  • The robber brandished a forty-five at the cashier to make her empty the till for him.From the entry forty-five
  • The box was not empty – I felt some positive substance within it.From the entry positive
  • There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.From the entry nest
  • Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.From the entry garbage
  • My dog is such a gobbler: she can empty her food dish in less than a minute.From the entry gobbler
  • There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.From the entry trough
  • They have to pitch to the slugger because there are no empty bases.From the entry empty base
  • The deckhand had to climb the pushknee to get onto the empty barge.From the entry pushknee
  • The empty space at the sides of the page is called the "margin".From the entry empty space
  • Empty out your locker; it will be deallocated at the end of the day.From the entry deallocate
  • The unspoken rule is to start a new pot of coffee when it is empty.From the entry unspoken
  • Toss me a ream of that plain paper, please. The printer is empty again.From the entry plain paper
  • John Doe is an empty suit running on an anti-populist platform.From the entry empty suit
  • He let rip a fart that emptied the elevator at the next floor.From the entry let rip
  • Sometimes cut-rate airfares are available because the seat would otherwise go empty.From the entry cut-rate
  • He has been running on empty for a while. It's likely the project will be canceled.From the entry run on empty
  • You can probably empty your glass in a one-er, there's not much left.From the entry in a one-er
  • The cosmicity of the empty, blank view from the telescope made him feel lonely.From the entry cosmicity
  • Empty jam jars are handy for keeping odd bits and pieces in.From the entry jam jar
  • Since the top hat was empty the moment before, the magician seemed to exnihilate the rabbit.From the entry exnihilate
  • A former gold medallist, he nevertheless came away empty from this year's Olympic Games.From the entry come away empty
  • With a heavy sigh, she looked around the empty room.From the entry with
  • He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.From the entry bus

Meaning of empty

  1. adjective Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
  2. adjective Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
  3. adjective Free; clear; devoid; often with of.

Full definition of empty

Questions about empty in a sentence

How do you use empty in a sentence?
Empty is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “Empty cow rates have increased in recent years.”
What is a short sentence with empty?
“an empty coxcomb”
What does empty mean?
Empty means devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: empty (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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