"an empty area" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a location or space that is completely devoid of objects, people, or activity. Example: As the sun slowly began to set, the children ran out to play in the empty area behind the house, chasing each other and laughing gleefully.
In front of them was an empty area for people with disabilities and seats costing hundreds of dollars.
Right-click on an empty area of the Quick Launch toolbar and make sure that Quick Launch is checked on the pop-up menu.
Young would eventually lose, 6-4, 6-3, and after leaving the court he walked away from his mother and wandered to an empty area in the middle of the field for an animated phone call.
Sometimes we talked about how cool it would be to see a cargo plane at ten thousand feet drop dozens of yellow Checker cabs over an empty area like the Sheep Meadow in Central Park, and how the taxis would look falling into the city against the blue of the sky; or how cool it would be to get a bucket of golf balls and hit them, one after the next, up Fifth Avenue some deserted Sunday morning.
Arrington was gleefully tooling around in an empty area behind the stage and menacing the TCTV crew and stage grips, until security disrupted his fun.
She said there was no need to put the rubble on the grave as there was an empty area with grass nearby.
The mean SD of Is was 6.5 ± 0.50 SEM, which is about twofold higher than the SD of 2.3 ± 0.50 SEM measured on an empty region with the same area.
Averages of the mean fluorescence of the entire embryo were calculated to compare expression levels and backgrounds were subtracted using identically sized areas from an empty region of the slide.
People think rape can only be done by some lone stranger (in a dark empty area like a parking lot) who has a history of psychotic behavior and creepy stalker-like tendencies, when in reality the majority of rape cases involve someone who the victim knows and trusts (spouse, friend, family member) and majority of rapists are smart, accomplished, well respected people like Brock.
When a frightened citizen spots her in an otherwise empty area of the police station and asks if she is there to take his statement, she answers, "Does this look like the haircut of someone who takes statements?" Madeleine desperately wants her precinct to have the lowest homicide rate so she'll have a shot at becoming mayor.
A small tattoo may lose impact if you choose a broad, empty area of skin, but an unexpected word or doodle offers an almost "treasure hunt" appeal to your body.
