How to Use empty into in a Sentence

empty into

verb
  • An outlet at its base allows it to be emptied into a tank.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Water from that storm is still flowing down the river, which empties into the ocean.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Water empties into a 38-L gray tank via a gravity drain system.
    — New Atlas, 4 June 2026
  • The river empties into Lake Michigan.
    — Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Massive rivers like the Nile and the Rhône today empty into the Mediterranean at sea level.
    — Elizabeth Fernandez, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Half an hour north by five-horse outboard, McAree empties into Lac La Croix.
    — Hank Bradshaw, Outdoor Life, 24 June 2026
  • Of the more than five thousand tributaries that empty into the Great Lakes, about one in ten is infested with lampreys.
    — Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The creek empties into the Cumberland River.
    — Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Aug. 2025
  • That main truck goes to the recycling facility where it’s basically emptied into a hopper.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026
  • Over the course of a few hours, the smaller bubbles empty into larger ones, until the fluid coalesces into a single cavity.
    — Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The leak's wastewater entered Lake Michigan by traveling across land and into a storm sewer, which empties into lake.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Strong suction and a rolling brush effectively scoop up dirt, crumbs, and debris from the floors before returning to the base to empty into the 3-liter dustbin.
    — Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 22 May 2026
  • Strong suction and a rolling brush effectively scoop up dirt, crumbs, and debris from the floors before returning to the base to empty into the 3-liter dustbin.
    — Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 24 May 2026
  • The Mekong starts in China and flows through five Southeast Asian nations before emptying into the sea.
    — Anton L. Delgado, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Three separate pipes, then, all emptying into HYPE.
    — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • The canal, off Caribbean Drive, spans six blocks before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
  • An investigator said the boy had been shot, stabbed and placed in a suitcase, which was thrown into a river that empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • For large numbers, use a shop vacuum to remove them, then empty into an outdoor trash container ASAP.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The plastic whistles and the car horns and the street brawls and the neighborhoods emptying into streets — the whole communities playing immovable rock to unstoppable federal force.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Scott Boyd walks through deep mud where the Stillaguamish River empties into Puget Sound, an arm of the Pacific Ocean.
    — John Ryan, NPR, 3 May 2026
  • Fresh and gray water will store in individual 121-L tanks, with black water emptying into a 57-L tank.
    — C.c. Weiss may 30, New Atlas, 30 May 2026
  • The powerful wind is the breath of this land; its heart is the Kali Gandaki, the river that originates in the north, near the Tibetan border, and empties into the Ganges.
    — Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2024
  • Fishermen actually catching their dinner where the San Gabriel empties into the Pacific.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The Wind flows into the Peel River which, in turn, empties into the Mackenzie River about 90 miles from the Arctic Ocean.
    — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • For those who hadn’t gotten their musical fill for the evening, the timing was perfect as local songwriter Sydney Sprague began her set on the outdoor stage as the Coliseum emptied into the fairgrounds.
    — Josh Chesler, AZCentral.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Some videos claimed police officers asked drinkers to pour their BORGs out into the Chicago River or showed officers dumping them down drains that empty into the river.
    — Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The 120-mile (195 km)-long river starts in the Mexican city of Tijuana, crosses into California and empties into the ocean.
    — ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The signs, driven into the sand near where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico, caused a stir when witnesses said men in a boat arrived at the local beach known as Playa Bagdad and erected them.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Now, tests have demonstrated that the bacteria in waters of San Pedro Creek, which empties into the ocean at Linda Mar Beach, come primarily from the human intestinal tract.
    — Molly McCrea, CBS News, 22 May 2026
  • The Housatonic, which flows south from western Massachusetts through Connecticut and empties into Long Island Sound at Stratford, is known for its dangerous currents.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025

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