Sentence examples for a mass of empty from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a mass of empty" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It could be used in a context where you are describing a large quantity of something that is devoid of content or substance, but it needs further specification.
Example: "The abandoned warehouse was filled with a mass of empty boxes, left to gather dust."
Alternatives: "a heap of emptiness" or "a pile of void".

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Home-ownership for millions deteriorated into a mass of empty homes confronting stunned ex-homeowners.

The former Thai prime minister must have been dismayed by the surreal sight of his slightly shamefaced players circuiting Eastlands in front of a mass of empty blue seats.

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The train is 304 m long and has a mass of 503 t when empty.

"There is very broad consensus that we are looking at a fall of about 50% (from peak to trough) but the risks are to the downside," says Sabina Kalyan, a strategist at CBRE Investors, a real-estate fund manager.Rents are falling, too, as the mass of empty space coming on to the market in areas such as London strengthens tenants' bargaining-power.

The yield was obtained as follows: Mass of plant material distilled (g) = X; Mass of empty bottle (g) = A; Mass of bottle + oil extracted (g) = B; Mass of oil (g) = (B – A); Percentage yield = [ B-A) ÷ X] 100 (Table  1).

{text{Moisture content }}left( {% {text{ wet basis}}} right) = frac{{(M_{text{i}} - M_{text{f}} )}}{{(M_{text{i}} - M_{text{t}} )}} times, 100, (1 where M t = mass of empty tray (g), M i = mass of empty tray (g) + mass of grain before drying (g), and M f = mass of empty tray (g) + mass of grain after drying (g).

"This way," he said, dashing past a mass of sleeping bags and pillows and empty Gatorade bottles.

She saw the city not as a mass of buildings but rather as a vessel of empty spaces, in which people interacted with other people.

The sparse mycelium of P. infestans was detected in DN-AtRop1 transgenic potato leaves at 96 hpi, whereas, the control leaves expressed the empty vector, showed a mass of blue staining under the microscope.

Are there a lot of empty cubicles?

So not a lot of empty seats.

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