How to use "empty" in a sentence

They put me in an empty room

The room was empty

We walked into the town and finally found a place to sleep in an empty building.

I played two songs - and a man walked past and threw some money into my empty coffee cup! I played two more songs, and soon the cup was half full of money!

The room was dirty and there were empty bottles everywhere

But in Whitechapel the pubs were empty, and there were only policemen and vagabonds in the dark streets

'But it's empty!' she cried

Madeleine to stare at the papers on his desk with an empty, puzzled look in his eyes.

He turned again to Fantine and looked for one last time at her sad, pale face and empty, blue eyes

Miserably, she picked up a large, empty bucket that was almost as big as she was, and was walking with it to the door when Madame Thenardier stopped her.

It seemed empty, although he could not see into the shadows behind the trees

The rope ladder was swinging gently above the empty street.

The moonlit garden and the street beyond it were completely empty

With Marius in the back seat, Valjean and Javert side by side in the front, the carriage drove off quickly through the dark and strangely empty streets of Paris.

But the street was empty; there was no one there.

So I empty my pockets, and at first there is nothing helpful there: no wallet, no keys and no phone

High and hot, and looking down on the crowds of people which wait on both sides of the empty road.

Barry Brennan stands in the doorway of an empty shop and waits

Good, Barry thinks: the place is practically empty.

And before Barry Brennan begins to shout and scream to the empty church, he hears the soft voice one more time.

And the road is empty

Then suddenly the road is not empty: there is a car behind him

Their cabin by the lake was cold and empty, and there were no jobs for him anywhere.

The other detective, West, is younger and thinner but with an empty look in his eye.

And don't forget there are two shots and that I should empty the gun before I give it back to you."

Inside the carriage it is even hotter than on the platform, but it is almost empty too.

The room was almost empty

People were coming and going from the main entrance, like last time, but the narrow passageway down the side looked dark and empty

The restaurant was almost empty

'An empty house, even a very beautiful one, can be lonely,' de Winter said.

All the drawers and cupboards were empty.

He can't live in that empty house without Rebecca

The rooms were empty

Maxim's bed was empty

The policeman took me into an empty room

Would you like to go in? There's an empty seat near the door.'

Although she was bitter and depressed, although - or maybe because - she felt utterly empty and useless, she took the job.

In the refrigerator was a half-empty bottle of white wine

Gradually, as her ears stopped ringing, Vivienne perceived the soft empty hiss of the stereo speakers

When the aisle in front of her booth was finally empty of well-wishers, Tina got up and met Joel as he started to come to her

It was empty

Elliot carried their empty brandy glasses to the bar in the corner and switched on the light above the sink

Tina raised her head, glanced at the empty street behind them, then looked at Elliot

Tina lowered her gaze from the empty air to the map, and her hand began to move

The cab was empty, and they boarded it, and the doors glided together.

It was quite empty and I was alone.'

The room was empty

'You say the room was empty, Mrs Protheroe?'

The place is empty but a window was open

So, someone walked into the empty cottage and used the telephone

She had gone to the vicarage at about a quarter past six and thought that the study was empty

Mrs Protheroe went to the window and thought the study was empty

'Well, the third is, of course, that the room really was empty.'

An empty pill bottle and a glass of water were on a table beside him

All the houses seemed empty

It seemed like any other Sunday - except for the empty houses, and the other ones where people were packing.

I saw an empty boat, very small and far away, moving down the river and, taking off most of my wet clothes, I swam to it

They did this to the black clouds near us, as we saw in the starlight from the upper window of an empty house

All through this time I and the curate had been hiding in the empty house where we went to escape the Black Smoke

The cylinder was already open in the centre of the pit, and on the furthest side one of the great fighting-machines, empty now, stood tall and unmoving against the evening sky

The Martians had taken away the digging-machine and apart from the fighting-machine on the far side of the pit and a building- machine that was busy out of my sight, the pit was empty

When at last I did, I found that the food cupboard was now empty

The view of blackened trees and empty ruined buildings made me very unhappy

After a week or two running around the fields on empty stomachs they'll come and be caught quite happily.' He paused

It was an empty city waiting for death...

It seemed that all the empty houses had found a voice for their fear and loneliness.

People who were still alive would start to return, and life would come back to the empty streets

My hosts tried to change my mind but at last, promising faithfully to return to them, I went out again into the streets that had lately been so dark and strange and empty.

All down the line from there, the country looked empty and unfamiliar

I went into the hall, and the house felt empty

I sit in my study writing by lamplight, and suddenly I see the valley below on fire again, and feel that the house around me is empty and lonely

I go to London and see the busy crowds in Fleet Street and the Strand, and it comes to my mind that they are just the ghosts of the past, walking the streets that I have seen silent and empty, spirits in a dead city

Well, I like walking past that cottage, and last Monday, as I walked past the cott age I saw an empty van going away from the cottage, and furniture in front of the cottage

I was surprised to see you - the road was empty just a moment ago.'

I found the record of the marriage of the man called Walter, but the space at the bottom of the page was empty! On the next page was the record of the double marriage

She voted in an almost-empty building, which was for women only.