How to Use empty into in a Sentence

empty into

phrasal verb

• Both rivers are more than 170 miles long and empty into the Gulf of Maine.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2023
• Brown the butter, and empty into a bowl to cool for about 1 hour.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
• The players on the field dropped to their knees as the bench emptied into an all-out sprint to jump on them.
  — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 30 July 2024
• However, the Mersey does not, and never will, empty into the North Sea.
  — Rory Smith, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
• Over 66 percent of drains in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where Varanasi sits, still empty into the Ganges and its tributaries.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• The characters run from the Okavango, which empties into river basins that take you to the falls.
  — Graeme Green, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2024
• The Ukrainians control the higher ground on the western bank as the river empties into the Black Sea, forming a 135-square-mile basin.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• In a large bowl, sprinkle kosher salt all over the cucumber and onion slices, toss gently, and empty into a colander in the sink or over a bowl.
  — Stacey Ballis, Southern Living, 1 July 2023
• Deltas form when the mouth of a river empties into another body of water.
  — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
• Those who want more of a thrill can try out the four-story waterslide that empties into the ocean, go snorkeling or take one of the free bikes out for a ride.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• The powerful wind is the breath of this land; its heart is the Kali Gandaki, the river that originates in the north, near the Tibetan border, and empties into the Ganges.
  — Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2024
• The bags are then emptied into the garbage, eliminating the hassles of dealing with black waste water.
  — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 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
• Hudson’s travels brought him to what is now New York Harbor, where the river that would later take his name emptied into the Atlantic.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2024
• The inhabitants lived in a clutch of thatched roundhouses built on wooden stilts above a channel of the River Nene, which empties into the North Sea.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• The brand claims this robot mop can hold up to 30 days of dust in the dustbin, which the robot mop empties into automatically.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023
• Nor are there busloads of asylum-seekers emptying into the streets of downtown Greenville.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2024
• Elsewhere, a black granite sarcophagus is meant to be an homage to AIDS victims; this, too, empties into bathos.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 14 June 2024
• Mounds of textile waste litter beaches across the capital, Accra, and the lagoon which serves as the main outlet through which the city’s major drainage channels empty into the Gulf of Guinea.
  — Francis Kokutse, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• People skate on top of the Poplar River, which empties into Lake Superior.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
• And even where storm drains empty into sewage treatment plants, large storms can overwhelm the systems, forcing them to release water that has not been fully treated.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Aquariums should also not be emptied into street or storm drains, since these systems often discharge into the ocean.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 May 2024
• Twisting through the bottomland was a sparkling stream that emptied into Indiana’s largest reservoir, Lake Monroe.
  — Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
• Coalescence happens when the roots of two plants grow together, when wastewater is emptied into a river or even when two people kiss.
  — Jennifer Debruyn, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2023
• Brackish water dolphins are often sighted where the lake empties into the Arabian Sea.
  — Prasad Ramamurthy, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2024
• Its silty rivers rush down from the Himalayas, spill into a filigreed maze of ponds, wetlands and tributaries before emptying into the blustery, black Bay of Bengal.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 25 June 2023
• Within the stomach, the food is churned in an acidic fluid and partially digested contents before being emptied into the small intestines.
  — Robert Burakoff, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2024
• Once the skip at the reception area is full, the waste is emptied into the landfill, where it is then covered with inert material to minimise the release of gases or liquids and then compacted.
  — Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025
• Most of the rivers that run across the state historically emptied into the Gila, or into another tributary that reaches the Gila.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
• But the storied river’s final flourish, to empty into the Gulf of California, doesn’t happen anymore.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023