Sentence examples for managed to empty from inspiring English sources

"I am happy because I managed to empty my mind.

I thought: I hope the commander managed to empty the fuel tanks, the hijacker might have explosives on him.

They even managed to empty the Department of Special Investigation, Thailand's version of the FBI.But just as the government overreached with the amnesty bill, so has Mr Suthep.

Without any multimillion-dollar aid packages, they have managed to empty the fields that once accounted for 75percentt of the world's opium crop.

Yes, most people who had the correct equipment did quite easily manage to empty their bladders into the sink.

The Conservative backbench MP, Peter Bone, is a politician who usually manages to empty the House of Commons, but he got a prolonged standing ovation from people who didn't know who he was and had clearly never heard him speak.

For now, though, you could argue that the events of 9/11 still seem so unfathomable that they have actually impoverished the language a little, leaving us with a vacuous phrase like war on terror, which manages to empty both "war" and "terror" of much their meaning, or the creepy, Nazi-sounding homeland, which seems a far less pleasant place to live than just plain America.

But it did provide a platform from which at least some of the crimes were admitted and acknowledged, and it did manage to empty the Rwandan jails which contained hundred of thousands of prisoners.

Thus, this lineage of modern haplochromines managed to occupy "empty niches" in an apparently "full" ecosystem, as all remaining tribes, which now account for about 200 species, had already been established when the ancestor of the Tropheini secondarily entered LT (Figs. 2, 3).

"When we were attacking, we looked for the empty spaces and we managed to take advantage of those empty spaces and penetrate the defences of the Greek team".

How different it might have been had David Silva not wasted a glorious chance to make it 2-0 on Friday and Sergio Busquets managed to prod into an empty net at 0-2 on Wednesday.