EMPTY in a Sentence
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279 example sentences for EMPTY, such as:
1. The box lay empty on the bed.
2. An empty bad cannot stand upright.
3. His voice resonated in the empty church.
4. Better an empty purse than an empty head.
5. He that is full of himself is very empty.
2. An empty bad cannot stand upright.
3. His voice resonated in the empty church.
4. Better an empty purse than an empty head.
5. He that is full of himself is very empty.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of EMPTY
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empty
a. emptied of emotion
a. holding or containing nothing
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2 Our man on the beat saw a light there about two in the morning, and as the house was an empty one, suspected that something was amiss.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3 We are at a loss as to how he came into the empty house; indeed, the whole affair is a puzzler.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4 It was one of four which stood back some little way from the street, two being occupied and two empty.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
5 When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
6 Nothing more is known of them until Mr. Drebber's body was, as recorded, discovered in an empty house in the Brixton Road, many miles from Euston.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
7 The night was so wet that no one was about, so Charpentier dragged the body of his victim into the empty house.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
8 When I got to London my pocket was about empty, and I found that I must turn my hand to something for my living.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
9 In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal.
10 At this early hour of a June morning the library was empty.
11 Empty, empty, empty; silent, silent, silent.
12 She flushed, as if she had spoken in an empty room and someone had stepped out from behind a curtain.
13 Yet the stage was empty; only the cows moved in the meadows; only the tick of the gramophone needle was heard.
14 "They come every year," said Mrs. Swithin, ignoring the fact that she spoke to the empty air.
15 The stage was empty; the actors were still dressing up among the bushes.
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1 The empty desk suggested she had already gone home.
2 She showed him around the ground floor of the empty house.
3 As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.
4 An empty bad cannot stand upright.
5 It is because of heart bottom touch that empty, so he just so painful.
6 He that is full of himself is very empty.
7 His voice sounded oddly resonant in the empty room.
8 Better an empty purse than an empty head.
9 The box lay empty on the bed.
10 It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
11 His voice resonated in the empty church.
12 This street so empty your shadow was in every corner.
13 He debarrassed her of an empty cup at the tea-party.
14 It wastes energy to run the dishwasher half empty.
15 The relationship had been important to me and its loss left me feeling sad and empty.