Sentence examples for an empty barrel from inspiring English sources

But the sound they make has been likened to giant fingernails scratching the bottom of an empty barrel.

I was in last period history class at DeWitt Clinton High School when the principal announced from the bottom of an empty barrel: "Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you that your president is dead".

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly called her an "empty barrel" (a showboat and a hot dog), and put her in her place by accusing her of disrespecting the military.

Kelly's criticism of Wilson, during which he referred to her as an "empty barrel," drew swift denials from the congresswoman's staff and denunciations from her supporters, who said the retired Marine Corps general was inaccurate and out of line.

On Oct. 19, in a rare appearance at the White House media briefing, Kelly attacked Wilson as an "empty barrel" and accused her of grandstanding at a public event two years ago in Florida by taking credit for securing federal funding for a new building.

Trump has taken to calling Wilson "wacky"; his chief of staff, the retired general John Kelly, called her an "empty barrel" in a press conference last week, and put out a story about watching in disbelief as she grandstanded during an F.B.I. ceremony a number of years ago a story that was, as a video of the event proves, demonstrably false.

Michener assured him that the only instrument he had ever heard the natives play was an emptied barrel of gasoline, drummed upon with clubs.

(A wife who fails at this task is cast off as an mgbaliga, or empty barrel, and a new wife is acquired).

Mashing the empty barrel of a ballpoint pen into the cylindrical keyhole and turning it clockwise does the trick that has struck fear into the hearts of bicycle owners, especially those in New York, where thousands of bikes are stolen each year.

Kryptonite, a bike lock manufacturer in Canton, Mass., paid little attention to the Internet until 2004, when a San Francisco cyclist figured out how to pop open his U-shaped lock by mashing the empty barrel of a ball point pen into its keyhole.

When you first see him come out, the set looks like any kind of HBO special's set, a fake brick wall and garbage and, you know, a ladder, empty barrels.