'went empty' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrasal verb that means "to become depleted or exhausted". Example: The gas tank went empty right before we got to our destination.
Even after the reviews, however, many seats went empty.
After her husband died in December of 2014, Donna Hogan's home went empty.
Meanwhile, many of the hospital's beds went empty, and remain so.
(In the first weeks after Sept. 11, almost three out of four hotel rooms in the city went empty).
Without big-name entertainment, more rooms went empty and Mr. Wagner found himself struggling to feed an enormous mortgage.
Hmmm, would I? Why wouldn't I? Home I went, empty handed and feeling unsettled.
For that matter, Mr. Clooney ("Michael Clayton and Johnny Depp Sweeney ToddTheDemone Demon Barber of Fleet Street") picked up best-actor nominations, while the twice-honored Tom Hanks Charlie Wilsonon's War") and Denzel Washington ("American Gangster") went empty-handed.
He once drove from Canada to Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania hoping to find a ride in an event, but he went empty-handed.
"Lots of times I go empty.
Tables are not yet going empty.
And those seats might've gone empty".
