Example sentences for: empty

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

  • Then Leigh launches the first of many flashbacks to their college days--on bluish film stock, with a shaky camera--and the glimpse of the past fills in the empty spaces in the present.

  • The “Imperial” coffers were empty, the empire swiftly began to contract, and British military forces were pulled out of Bermuda after 174 years.

  • If there are NO other empty stalls and you gotta go, then, by all means, use them--but never if there are other stalls you can use.

  • John Travolta's empty nightclub impersonation of Bill Clinton in Primary Colors (1998) had one positive result: It gave him a jump-start on Jan Schlichtmann, the reckless personal injury lawyer at the center of A Civil Action . Travolta's Schlichtmann is much more redolent of Clinton: slick and selfish and corrupt in lots of ways but basically on the side of the angels, too proud and arrogant to change tactics when all is certainly lost.

  • If you saw Patrick Stewart on a talk show, and he wasn't wearing his Star Trek uniform, would you assume that he was "empty at the core"?


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