Sentence examples for an empty plate from inspiring English sources

A knife and fork had been set out alongside an empty plate, for a guest who had not come.

But "Dining Alone" is barren: melancholy — and the frailty that it cloaks — is more than an empty plate.

Eat from the set menu every night and you will not see the same food twice and you will not leave an empty plate.

Mr. Modi, observing a nine-day fast for the Hindu festival of Navratri, sat before an empty plate, consuming only warm water at his own request.

We've assembled a team of comedians to assess the quality of this year's Christmas cracker gags, which is rather like getting Marcus Wareing in to judge the quality of an empty plate that a toddler insists contains a cake.

As a 50-year-old woman who has battled eating disorders since the onset of puberty, or perhaps even earlier than that, I read voraciously "When Midlife Seems Just an Empty Plate" (March 9), concerning older women and eating disorders.

Indeed it was so difficult to penetrate what eventually proved to be nothing but an empty shell that my plate was a hideous mess once the operation was over.

Rib eye, oddly piled on one side of an otherwise empty plate, was satisfyingly smothered in St. Albray fondue.

In fact a dieter's worst enemy is staring at a half empty plate and being hungry and hangry --all thangry --all

"Oh, I lost track!" they'd say as they passed a nearly empty plate.

For a long while when doing a Sunday roast for the family, I would sit there with a half empty plate, eyeing up everyone else's that was full of creamy buttery mash, totally unfulfilled afterwards as I felt that without the mashed potatoes, something was missing.