Example sentences for: emptied

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

  • 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.

  • Such stars as Frank Sinatra and Ginger Rogers performed, and American tourists emptied their wallets in glittering casinos.

  • The NYT reports that after the agreement was reached, members of both parties emptied silently out of the chamber.

  • Urine samples were collected for Prostaglandin E 2 (PGE 2 ) measurements by suprapubic aspiration, which completely emptied the bladder.

  • According to Monte Carlo folklore, it was a slide, accessible only through a trap-door, that emptied out into the Mediterranean far below: the bodies of gamblers who had taken their own lives after losing the family fortunes were dispatched through the chute into oblivion.


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