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Saturday's show at a Philadelphia sports stadium was a stripped down event and there were a number of empty seats in the venue when the concert began.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

For the Dodgers, the worst tickets seldom fall to market rate, because the team would rather live with a few empty seats rather than condition fans to hold out for a lower price.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

In the coastal Gambian town of Tanji, Sirah Darboe-Manneh cleans fish next to a row of ice boxes laying empty because of relentless power cuts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

The Extend button zooms out on close-ups, generating visuals to fill the empty space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

An empty glove, worthless without a hand to fill it.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

“All this is going to the U.S.A.,” said Rosario Norzagaray, standing near where the viaduct empties into pipes that cross to the American side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

The captain takes a deep breath and empties his lungs in an exasperated sigh that I can feel like a gale.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The stage felt emptier without them, but their bandmates worked hard to fill the gaps, hyping up the crowd with a succession of bass-heavy pop anthems and jaw-dropping dance breaks.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Baskets I had paused over were emptier when I returned.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

Now, the Oscar-winning actor is adjusting to an emptier nest as two of his and wife Luciana Barroso’s four daughters head out into the world.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

The big barren parlor seemed suddenly emptier still.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Wherever you travel in the universe, whether to a nearby galaxy or to the deepest interior of the emptiest void, you will never truly be alone.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

Per pupil spending in the district is $19,798, but per pupil costs at the 10 emptiest schools is double—almost $38,000.

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

San Francisco: “The Daily” covered how the City by the Bay’s downtown became the emptiest in America.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 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

The conflict has disrupted marquee events, emptied luxury hotels, and hit aviation, real estate, tourism, shipping and hotels across the region.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

A man was apparently digging around inside a dumpster when the driver picked it up and emptied it into the back of the truck, the department said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

He emptied his bench in a desperate attempt to stem the flow, but his substitutions, five in 12 befuddled minutes, had zero impact.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The screen looked almost like a cheerful kitchen-table flat-lay: products arranged over a wood-grain background, hovering around a GoPuff bag as though someone had just come home and emptied the evening’s provisions onto the table.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

Florida emptied the jar of chocolate syrup into the bowl.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

"The weather had been wet and there was a problem with mixing the slurry and emptying the slurry before the cattle came in - it was quite a stressful situation," she told BBC Cymru Fyw.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Time had punctured the roof with 20 holes and whenever it rained, Baker would run around placing buckets under them and emptying them when they were full, like a game of Whac-A-Mole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

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

A breeze ruffled the weeds growing tall on the lawn, turning brown now, their seed pods emptying into the air.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn