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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Put the empties in that bag.
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The bartender picked up the crate of empties and took it down to the cellar.
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You can get some money back if you return the empties to the shop.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the sink empties , all of its water passes through the spiral.
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Besides, we had plans to make about how to spend the money we'd get for the empties .
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For him, the trout are stacked in rows like a crate of open-mouthed empties , waiting to be carted away.
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I grabbed the empties and got back behind the bar.
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That spells reasonable pickings for the armies of poor people hunting the empties .
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The most coveted prize is empties .