How to Use empty of in a Sentence

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• Authorities found his home empty of all its possessions and pools of blood inside.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2024
• Ukrainian military bloggers reported that Russian forces may have broken through the defenders' flanks near the city, which is already largely destroyed and empty of civilians.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2024
• The three sit in the quad or lunch area, empty of teens when class is in session.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• The mall was empty of bodies, making the music over the PA seem oddly loud.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
• Then later in our show, we’re headed to Venice, where the famous canals are empty of water.
  — CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
• While the canoes were being packed, Cajazeira sliced into the swollen tissue and watched it empty of pus.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• The Clougherty pool is empty of water and locked up as people will be looking for ways to stay cool over the hot weekend.
  — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• The New York City streets were empty of cars, and there were so many of us walking slowly, unfocused and covered in soot.
  — Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
• In the months since then, Ye’s Instagram page was wiped completely empty of any posts.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 23 May 2022
• In Tahoe City, where there were reports of brief power outages, the streets were mostly empty of cars as snow piled up the roadways.
  — Megan Michelson, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• Although the area was empty of fans, Simone Biles and other members of the US women’s team were on hand to lend support.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
• For eight weeks, the streets of Paris were empty of traffic and silent, the sidewalks desolate, all but essential food stores closed.
  — Rachel Donadio, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
• Panic tells the story of Heather, a senior in high school, who lives in the small town of Carp, a place full of dead-ends and empty of possibility.
  — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 28 May 2021
• Then, it was met with a stadium nearly empty of Sun Devil fans at the conclusion of it.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2021
• That left shops on the Syrian side empty of sugar and other staples.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• Front Street, the heart of the historic downtown and the economic hub of Maui, was nearly empty of life Saturday morning.
  — Claire Rush, Ty O'Neil and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
• One grocery store on the eastern side of Hong Kong Island appeared to be empty of almost all supplies.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
• The 160-mile stretch is barred with fences and landmines and is largely empty of human activity.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• Seaspiracy also claims that at our current rate of overfishing, the oceans could be empty of fish by 2048.
  — Svati Kirsten Narula, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2021
• Any magazines must be empty of bullets, and ammo must be in some sort of container, not loose, Lam said.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2021
• Shelves are nearly empty of baby formula at a store in Las Vegas, May 22.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• The loss of these imports has left Cuban stores empty of the most basic consumer items, from beer and paper products to spare parts for household appliances.
  — Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2018
• Since fall, she’s spent much of her time wandering through its narrow streets and dynamic ruins, now empty of crowds.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• Here are a few handy gaslighting snippets that are often used: Life is totally empty of value and meaning (this is a mild one).
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• My wife’s birthday weekend was empty of activities for us and our 9- and 11-year-old daughters, which was strange even in the late innings of the pandemic.
  — Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2021
• The streets of Colombo are mostly empty of cars now, except for those parked in lines stretching several blocks waiting for a turn at a fuel pump.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022
• His mobile home in the park was mostly empty of furniture — no TV and no computer, either.
  — Kathy McCormack, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• Its low brick buildings were mostly empty of people, with most of the headquarters workforce working from home.
  — Patrick Condon, Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
• Nearby, the riverfront Bund, Shanghai’s most famous vista, was quiet and empty of its usual crowds of pedestrians.
  — Joe McDonald, ajc, 30 Mar. 2022
• In fact, stretches of the Elizabeth Line have been running—empty of people, full of potential, at sixty miles an hour, in five-minute intervals—for more than a year.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024