Sentence examples for a piece of empty from inspiring English sources

She was terrified of a piece of empty brown material.

When Roger Baines first spotted a piece of empty land on Barbados's fabled Platinum Coast he fancied building himself a house there, looking out on to the Caribbean.

What happened was that a piece of empty desert which had been under the control of the British Mandate (who got it after the Ottoman Empire fell apart) was awarded to the Jewish state.

The picture finishes stirringly, with a conversation between the now aged emperor and his long-dead concubine, photographed mostly with his presence invisible and the camera trained on a piece of empty palace floor where autumn leaves lift and rattle.

They, too, wanted a piece of empty white wall space.

All you have to do is cook one, eat it, and stuff a piece of empty shell with a boatload of pot.

Even a grown woman might, as she does, receive a piece of solace emptied out of nastiness: "These books gave Matilda a comforting message: you are not alone".

All single cell samples that were catapulted from a particular tissue section were subsequently accompanied in all procedures by a negative control sample that consisted of a 100 μm2 piece of empty membrane catapulted from the same tissue section.

Negative control samples for WGA were prepared for each mounted and stained slide from a 100 μm2 piece of empty polyethylene membrane containing no mouse tissue.

Plans for building a balloon and what appeared to be a rocket were found on a piece of paper along with empty steel tubes and parts of a rocket-propelled grenade.

By stark contrast, Michelangelo - no slave to princes or people - presents himself in The Last Judgement with searing humility, distorted and grey, on a piece of flayed skin, "an empty overcoat hitched to a rubber mask... the shucked skin of a repentant sinner".