How do you use the word "empty" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "empty": My life would be completely empty without you. Empty vessels make the most sound.

Empty Meaning

/ˈɛm(p).ti/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjDevoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.

adjContaining no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).

Sentence Examples

My life would be completely empty without you.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

The curtain rose to reveal an empty stage.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

clean blank white

Antonyms:

fill full meaningful

CEFR Practice Quiz

Please ____ the trash bin before it overflows with waste.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I found an ____ cardboard box in the garage this morning.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet. The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…] something in the little man's appearance suggested that he would be sufficiently attentive to his own comfort to choose the emptiest table." — 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 103:

"[…] San Sebastian Church was desolate in the courtyard; emptier, lonelier inside with its pews stretched out like fallen pylons varnished by dolorous residue. From each candlelit nook stared in stony despair one after another saint, regal and rueful: proffering forgiveness, peace, a todo." — 1970, Wilfrido D. Nolledo, chapter 19, in But for the Lovers, Dalkey Archive Press, page 165:

"United's stature is such that one result must not bring the immediate announcement of a shift in the balance of power in Manchester - but the swathes of empty seats around Old Trafford and the wave of attacks pouring towards David de Gea's goal in the second half emphasised that City quite simply have greater firepower and talent in their squad at present." — 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport:

"It's a 58-minute journey with seven intermediate stops, including a reversal at Cromer - another popular destination. The train starts to empty at North Walsham, and then there is an exodus at Cromer. The coach is almost empty for the final few miles into Sheringham." — 2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 54:

"And I ſhal finde you emptie of that fault, Right ioyfull of your reformation." — c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 144:

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