| 1. | “Ekwe emaat limed dān,” Jema ekōjjeḷāiki. | “Well, we are out of drinking water,” Father informed him. P1240 | kōjjeḷā |
| 2. | “Emaat baḷuunin Navy kaṇe aer pukpukōt kōmimān,” juon armej ekar kōkōnono tok ñan kōmmān jān ioon wab eo. | “The Navy planes gave up looking for you,” someone said to us from the pier. P1342 | baḷuun |
| 3. | “Kab bar letok in teiñi ñe emaat.” | “Give it back to me when it’s empty so I can fill it again.” P1170 | maat |
| 4. | “Kiiō emotḷọk de juon allōñ jān ke jeañ ar jerak jān Kwajleen ñan Likiep ak eñiin jej eppepe wōt i lọmeto im mōttan wōt jidik emaat limed dān,” Bojin eo ekakeememej ḷọk Jema. | “It’s been a month since we set sail from Kwajalein to Likiep but we are drifting at sea and we are almost out of drinking water,” the Boatswain reminded Father. P1018 | keememej |
| 5. | Ñe emaat wōdān kaṇe kōmiro jerake,” Kapen eo ekkūr ṃaan ḷọk | “When you two are done smoking we can set sail,” the Captain yelled up to them. P838 | wōdān |
| 6. | “Rej ba kwōn ṃōkaj bwe ejako ekun injin e bwe emaat kaan.” | “They said hurry up because the fuel is almost empty and the engine is going to shut off.” P575 | kaan |
| 7. | Armej ro wōj ilo ān eṇ, enaaj kōjkāer ke emaat limeer dānnin idaak? | What is going to be done about all the people at that island since they have run out of drinking water? | kōjka- |
| 8. | Ear kōnono ḷọk ḷọk emaat kūtuon im ḷotḷọk | She kept talking till she ran out of breath and fainted. | ḷọk |
| 9. | Ekar jab to ammān āindeeo innem emaat aḷaḷ ko rōkar aikuj wanlōñ ḷọk im pād i lọjet. | It wasn’t long before we had passed up all the boards that needed to go in the water. P712 | āinde- |
| 10. | Emaat an maroñ ektak. | There was no more room. P361 | maroñ |
| 11. | Emaat jibuun im remoot in kajibuuntok. | We ran out of spoons and they went looking for some. | jibuun |
| 12. | Emaat kaan kijek eṇ. | That fire doesn't have any more fuel. | kaan |
| 13. | Emaat kaan wa eo. | The boat ran out of fuel. | kaan |
| 14. | Emaat maroñ in kōppānpen jiroñ eo ñan an ṃare | They gave all they had to prepare the girl for her wedding. | pepānpān |
| 15. | Emaat ṃōñā | The food is all gone. | maat |
| 16. | Eṃōj ṇe aṃ ajoḷjoḷe pej ṇe bwe emaat kobban | Stop gnawing at the pandanus key because the juice is all gone. | ajoḷjoḷ |
| 17. | Etal im kajọọk tok bwe emaat jọọk | Go find us some chalk because we've run out. | jọọk |
| 18. | Iaar ṇaballin ḷọk ḷọk ooomm emaat aō nuknuk ṇa ippān. | I gave him so many of my clothes he got them all. | ṇaballin |
| 19. | Ij ilok in kajitọkin tok bwe emaat aō jitọkin. | I am going to look for stockings becauseI don't have any. | jitọkin |
| 20. | Ilo añūr ḷapḷap eo jema ear ba in mọọn iuṃwin ṃweo iṃōm im kowōdānḷọk kijen bwe emaat jikka iṃōn wia ko. | During a severe lack of cigarettes when smokers hankered for a smoke, my dad made me crawl under our house to search for cigarette butts because the island stores did not have cigarettes to sell. | wōdān |
| 21. | Ilọk im kajurub tok emaat. | Go get some syrup because we've run out. | jurub |
| 22. | Jeban lekarjin bwe emaat. | We won't be using kerosene anymore because there's no more left. | lekarjin |
| 23. | Jej aikuj kakkōnkōn bwe ejako emaat raij e. | we need to eat slowly because the rice is almost gone | kōkōn |
| 24. | Kab kaiur bwe ṃōttan wōt jidik ekun injin e admān bwe emaat kaan | And hurry up. The engine is about to shut off because there’s only a little bit of fuel left.P570 | kaiur |
| 25. | Kōmba emaat raij iāneo ak rejab tōmak. | We said the island was out of rice but they didn't believe us. | ba |
| 26. | Kwōn kajoobobe ke eō ippaṃ ñe emaat joob e aō? | Will you let me use your soap if I run out? | joobob |
| 27. | Kwōn kajoobobe ke eō ñe emaat joob e aō? | Will you let me share your soap if I run out of mine? | ñe |
| 28. | Pinana eo kōtka ear kalle ḷọk nan ke emaat an maroñ. | My banana plant bore fruit until it couldn't anymore. | le |
| 29. | Raar kajiitḷọk an aujpitōḷ bwe emaat. | They bought sheets for the hospital because they had run out of them. | jiit |
| 30. | Rej ba ke ñe ewōtlọk juon menọknọk ijin, emaat wōt ṇa i mejatoto ippān pako. | They say that if some trash is tossed overboard here, it will be snapped up by the sharks before it hits the water. P1322 | mejatoto |
| 31. | Wāween rawūn, waan rawūn eṇ ej etal ñan aolep āne in Rālik, ñe ebooḷ kobban kab ñe emaat ṃōñā im ṃweiuk, erọọl ñan Majro, eakto in ektak, kaṃōjḷọk tūreep eṇ an. | The procedure is for the field trip ship to go to all the islands of the Rālik, and when it is fully loaded and all food and trade goods are gone, it returns to Majuro, off-loading and on-loading, to finish the trip. S17 | wāwee- |