Example sentences for: emptied

How can you use “emptied” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In art historical terms, he flattened the picture plane, emptied it, and then had nowhere to go.

  • Unfortunately, these beautiful grottoes have been largely emptied by rival religious groups and by archaeological adventurers from the West.

  • The ballroom emptied, leaving the day's topic frustratingly unprobed.

  • “My two offices were emptied and the contents of these offices were put in the gutter.”

  • Hemingway’s favorite old hangout, the romantically overgrown island of Torcello, beyond Burano, is one of the lagoon’s oldest inhabited spots, very prosperous until emptied by a malaria epidemic.


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