How do you use Empty in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like vacant or void, plus the exact meaning.
Empty in a sentence
Related words
Empty meaning
- Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
Example sentences (20)
After a good opening drive, the Panthers come away empty after failing to convert a 4th-and short in the red zone.
After setting up the alias, you can just type a command such as "empty myfile", and the file will no longer have content.
A dog walker discovered a fully lit-up but empty Chy Trevail at 9.30 on a Saturday night earlier this month.
After looking a bit lost, she pointed to an empty seat and seemed to ask if it was assigned to her.
After having defeated the Empty Seven Clan, Afro is forced to face a new threat: a deadly warrior who wears a teddy mask called Jinno.
The nearly-empty Gate City Bank Field at the Fargodome was almost completely empty at around 6 p.m. on Saturday.
If empty productions are disallowed, only all regular languages that do not include the empty string can be generated.
The cardinality function, applied to the empty set, returns the empty set as a value, thereby assigning it 0 elements.
Seemingly empty buildings suspended Tomorrowland flags from their windows, while empty streets showed no signs of life.
Empty shelves that are normally filled with bread are seen empty at a supermarket in Gros Islet, St Lucia, 26 August 2019.
Some textbooks and articles disallow empty production rules, and assume that the empty string is not present in languages.
Across a vast stretch, the team set up fake convoys, false troop divisions, and empty headquarters to parade the "might" of the American army.
When this is done, the empty set is the Von Neumann cardinal assignment for a set with no elements, which is the empty set.
Dually, an initial object is a colimit of the empty diagram ∅ → C and can be thought of as an empty coproduct or categorical sum.
Empty hand Wooden dummy Forms Both the Way Yan (Weng Chun) and Nguyễn Tế-Công branches use different curricula of empty hand forms.
The empty set equipped with the empty binary operation satisfies this definition of a quasigroup.
The two men rush to the empty tomb and the Beloved Disciple is the first to reach the empty tomb.
Tweak the programming some and you could probably ID a car that looks empty/unoccupied but weighs way more than the empty curb weight.
This representation significantly simplifies adding and removing nodes with a non-empty list, but empty lists are then a special case.
According to the criminal complaint against Huggins, an officer observed garbage bags with empty beer containers both inside the vehicle and in the trunk.
Phrases with empty
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with empty
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an empty 55×
- the empty 53×
- empty set 27×
- of empty 11×
- with empty 9×
- empty net 9×
- empty and 8×
- empty for 6×
- is empty 6×
- be empty 5×
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About these examples
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