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Hundreds of metres of berths sat empty and towering gantry cranes stood idle as a skeleton crew conducted maintenance.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

The gene's attempted transfer therefore ended as a jump into an empty cell.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

Seehorn has come up empty three times before, twice for “Better Call Saul” and once for the short “Cooper’s Bar.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Sutor has rehabbed seven dilapidated homes around Gary and purchased 20 empty lots for new-home construction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

I throw the empty cup on the table and walk to the center of the dance floor.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The Rhine - which starts in the Swiss Alps and empties in the North Sea - is one of Europe's busiest waterways.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Calderas form when an eruption empties such an enormous volume of magma that the ground above the reservoir collapses.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

She mops the comb plates of escalators, empties trash bins and sweeps the platform of the No. 7 line subway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

“A bridge empties when the tolls gets high enough — no demolition required.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

One day, Peeta empties our breadbasket and points out how they have been careful to include types from the districts along with the refined bread of the Capitol.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Future observers will live in a universe that appears far smaller and emptier than the one we can see today.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

The louder the engine, the emptier the tank.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

More: Oil settles at highest price in over a week, as supplies ‘are getting emptier each week Hormuz stays closed’

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

The island didn’t just feel emptier, it was.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

The hole at the table where their mother normally sat seemed emptier than usual.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

These regions are among the coldest and emptiest places in the universe.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 21, 2026

Its new analysis—based on recent Chicago Public Schools data— shows that at least 255 of Chicago’s school buildings are underutilized, with the 10 emptiest schools operating at just 11% capacity on average.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

So it’s nice that Anne-Lise Millan-Brun, the founder of a bicycle school in Paris, has chosen as a training ground one of the emptiest places in this crowded city.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023

Last fall, the region recorded its emptiest harvest year in recent history, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

On a dirt track in the Tanami Desert–normally one of the emptiest places on Earth–they came over a slight rise just as another vehicle was approaching.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

A blaze near Plomari, the old ouzo town on the island’s south coast, was eating coastal homes while roughly 100 firefighters fought it, and a seaside resort emptied into the dark.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Some people may also feel as though the bowel has not emptied completely.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

Heham Hryhorian, who runs a resort in the region, said it felt like a horror movie after the 2022 invasion emptied out the hotels, bars and restaurants here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Instead, she emptied them one more time, with the biggest match of her career still waiting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The church, the rectory, a row of houses; and in back of the hotel, someone emptied a pail of dirty water.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

When infected mosquitoes are found, workers treat the area where they were collected with adulticide and conduct “source reduction,” a sophisticated way of describing what usually amounts to emptying containers of standing water.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Removing stagnant water, such as by emptying flowerpot plates, overturning unused pails and breaking up hardened soil, can help break the dengue transmission cycle.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

That changed more recently as the value of emptying office buildings plummeted, enabling developers to acquire these towers for pennies on the dollar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Mice without the PAM gene showed faster gastric emptying, and treatment with a GLP-1 receptor agonist failed to slow the process.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

Toward the end of the day, more bedpans, the emptying of sputum mugs, the making of cocoa.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan