empty into

phrasal verb

emptied into; emptying into; empties into
of a river, stream, etc.
: to flow into (something)
The river empties into the Indian Ocean.

Examples of empty into in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The South Nahanni River, or the Nahanni for short, flows 350 miles from its headwaters in the Mackenzie Mountains on the border with Yukon and across the massive Selwyn Mountains before emptying into the Liard River. Jayme Moye, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024 From the back of the Panthers’ procession, Tkachuk slammed Bud Lights — although probably about half of each one wound up on his shirt, blending in with the nonstop rain that drenched Broward County into the afternoon — and tossed the empties into the crowd. David Wilson, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024 Then there’s a giant chute that the dirty towels and bedsheets changed out by housekeepers from each floor empties into. Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024 The 9-year-old boy was not the first youngster to die in Tacony Creek, a small waterway in north and east Philadelphia that eventually empties into the Delaware River as Frankford Creek. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 10 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for empty into 

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“Empty into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empty%20into. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.

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