The phrase "a stack of empty" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to describe a stack of empty objects, but it needs additional context or a noun to be complete and meaningful.
Example: "I found a stack of empty boxes in the corner of the room."
Alternatives: "a pile of empty" or "a collection of empty".
Now she will become a stack of empty, soulless flats, and I will simply move on.
On one side are brilliant blue buoys and bicycle wheels; on the other, an umbrella, a lost shoe, and a stack of empty cans.
For the study, 63 children from 3 to 10 years old were shown a four-minute video in which a woman knocked down a stack of empty cans after being asked not to.
Locating Mr. Dickson took Mr. Kotowski down half a dozen blind alleys before he and Mr. Campbell knocked on the door of a single-story, house in Jessup, with an abandoned van, an abandoned pickup truck, a late-model Ford convertible, the candy van and a stack of empty corrugated cartons at one side.
Even so, the image of the blind boy reaching for a necklace strung with bullets, or howling into a stack of empty shell casings — the only playground open to the children being a rusty graveyard of spent military hardware — may leave some viewers almost unable to cope.
There, a cage trap tucked between a washing machine and a stack of empty bottles has captured a new addition to her research: a fist-sized ball of dull brown fur with a pair of shining black eyes.
And Michael Phelan presents a Pop-Minimalist stack of empty acquarium tanks.
Meanwhile over at Thyon - too far away for skiers resident in Verbier - there lies a stack of tremendous, far emptier reds and blacks, and a huge snowpark, where Jacob was in his element.
A few months later, she received a package in the mail containing a broken picture frame (empty); a stack of photographs of the Connecticut countryside, probably dating from the time Lu was thinking of moving up there; and twenty-odd earring backs.
In 2004, after Rodenstock abandoned the apartment, Klein entered his former tenant's cellar and discovered a collection of empty bottles and a stack of apparently new wine labels.
Maybe it's wishful thinking, but even Altenberg's notoriously idiosyncratic punctuation (" 'Do you recognize that stack of empty slivovitz bottles?!?' 'Indeed I do, they're mine — ' ") can seem to foreshadow our own free-for-all of exclamation marks and ellipses in e-mail.
