Sentence examples for Bare and empty from inspiring English sources
The playground stands bare and empty.
Everything around him is bare and empty and ready to be knocked down, but this fellow remains at his station, like a Japanese soldier still fighting the Second World War, giving orders to the empty space and grasping his chin and slamming a fist into his palm.
Once you've plucked your last tomato of the summer or pulled out your final runner bean, it's easy to imagine that the containers they filled are going to look rather sad as they sit bare and empty on the frozen wastes of your patio or windowsill over winter.
Weed should be about an overzealous generosity, a sharing that leaves your shelves and stocks bare and empty.
Only two ways living with this guy ends: he just disappears one day, and you tiptoe into his room for the first time to find it bare and empty; or coroners have to ease him out on a stretcher after he becomes the first man in the 21st century to die of scurvy.
The playground, so bare and empty over the summer holidays, has filled with colour and sound.
The stage setup is simple: a bare table and empty chair, with a small video screen behind it and two larger ones flanking it.
A year after the terror attacks, the newspaper moved back to three of its seven floors, but the offices, with bare walls and empty bookshelves, have a Motel 6 feel to them.
The festive goods they ordered in January and paid for in dribs and drabs hampers of food and drink, gifts from the company's catalogue and vouchers for high-street stores will never arrive.The Dickensian prospect of poor families facing a Christmas of bare cupboards and empty stockings has led the government to set up a relief fund.
Walking into this room, with its bright windows and messy tubes of paint, its bare floorboards and empty canvases, you realise what this world was really all about – not the girls and the absinthe of legend, but the dedicated making of pictures, often against great odds.
WASHINGTON -- Those with bare walls and empty pockets should consider dropping by the Cheap Art Sale on Saturday, an event featuring the work of local artists all priced under $50.
