How long would it take to virtually empty the city?
A family crisis eight months before the strike virtually emptied her savings.
All but one room had been virtually emptied.
In the end, debilitation gives way to depletion as the room is virtually emptied of its inhabitants.
The constant turmoil virtually emptied the city of Babylon.
The throat had been severed down to the spine, and the abdomen virtually emptied of its organs.
Like so many other towns in Darfur, Tawila virtually emptied.
In June, for the first time, a positive balance of $8 million was recorded in our national treasury, which had been virtually emptied by former regimes.
Later, when the membership of the Avengers had been virtually emptied, the Forgotten One joined them for a time.
Today, as a result of lawsuits by civil liberties organizations, the mental hospitals that once kept the out-of-mind out of sight have been virtually emptied.