How to Use empty of in a Sentence

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• The three sit in the quad or lunch area, empty of teens when class is in session.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• The sky above was a brilliant blue, empty of helicopters and ash.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
• The streets were mostly empty of his critics, and the weather could be blamed for that as well.
  — Ross Barkan, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
• Be sure the washer is empty of laundry, and the dispensers are also empty.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Jan. 2026
• By the end of this month, the city will require that its streets be empty of these defining symbols of the pandemic.
  — Naomi Zeveloff, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• Then later in our show, we’re headed to Venice, where the famous canals are empty of water.
  — CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
• Both deployed words that were fatally empty of meaning.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
• The streets are mostly empty of traffic except where the protesters are.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
• The mall was empty of bodies, making the music over the PA seem oddly loud.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
• Authorities found his home empty of all its possessions and pools of blood inside.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2024
• That left shops on the Syrian side empty of sugar and other staples.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• Since fall, she’s spent much of her time wandering through its narrow streets and dynamic ruins, now empty of crowds.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• In the months since then, Ye’s Instagram page was wiped completely empty of any posts.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 23 May 2022
• The Clougherty pool is empty of water and locked up as people will be looking for ways to stay cool over the hot weekend.
  — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• Its low brick buildings were mostly empty of people, with most of the headquarters workforce working from home.
  — Patrick Condon, Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
• Any magazines must be empty of bullets, and ammo must be in some sort of container, not loose, Lam said.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2021
• Following this mass extinction, the oceans were largely empty of competitors but rich in food.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
• Most of these are now empty of water and off-limits, leading to some complaints that the site no longer lives up to photographs that show it in years gone by.
  — Barry Neild, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
• Then, it was met with a stadium nearly empty of Sun Devil fans at the conclusion of it.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2021
• For eight weeks, the streets of Paris were empty of traffic and silent, the sidewalks desolate, all but essential food stores closed.
  — Rachel Donadio, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
• The curio cabinets are empty of their curiosities.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 10 Feb. 2026
• The 160-mile stretch is barred with fences and landmines and is largely empty of human activity.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• In Tahoe City, where there were reports of brief power outages, the streets were mostly empty of cars as snow piled up the roadways.
  — Megan Michelson, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• Fortunately, the fjord was empty of the cruise ships that regularly visit.
  — Matthew L. Druckenmiller, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
• The Maestro had a large, open salon that was nearly empty of furniture, along with large doors and access to the cockpit and side decks.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2024
• Seaspiracy also claims that at our current rate of overfishing, the oceans could be empty of fish by 2048.
  — Svati Kirsten Narula, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2021
• According to Navarro, the boy’s father believed the rifle was empty of bullets.
  — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
• His mobile home in the park was mostly empty of furniture — no TV and no computer, either.
  — Kathy McCormack, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• The New York City streets were empty of cars, and there were so many of us walking slowly, unfocused and covered in soot.
  — Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
• The streets of Colombo are mostly empty of cars now, except for those parked in lines stretching several blocks waiting for a turn at a fuel pump.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022