Sentence examples for an empty sidewalk from inspiring English sources

She captured her shadow creeping across the frame to touch an empty sidewalk, a lone horseshoe crab, a flowering lawn.

In that time, she has been nearly hit by a bus, ticketed for riding on an empty sidewalk on Amsterdam Avenue when she felt overwhelmed by the trucks and endured shouts from "daredevil" messengers.

The only audience members were hastily alerted reporters and camera crews, clustered on an empty sidewalk, instead of the crush of star-struck voters that often crowd her announced events.

Some of the pieces in the exhibit seem to speak to solitude as we might normally think of it: a photo by Matthew Connors shows an old man in a white T-shirt and khaki shorts — it could be somebody's grandpa — looking tiny and starkly alone as he stands on an empty sidewalk, accompanied only by the shadow of someone standing outside the frame.

Metal chairs were lashed together atop tables outside a restaurant in what's normally a busy entertainment district, and a street musician played to an empty sidewalk as rain began falling.

"In the past, we used to be afraid of being harmed or losing some business," said Muhammed Ali Rushdi, 39, defying the curfew to sit outside and eat watermelon with two friends on an otherwise empty sidewalk.

Looking at a nearly empty sidewalk outside, he said that things used to be worse.

A newspaper blown into a dandelion patch, a long stretch of empty sidewalk, and a gas station glaring like an alarm in the near distance don't call up sense memories of the soft evening air so much as hint at crime scenes, night sweats, and lost weekends.

The television cameras were gone, too, leaving little but a wide swath of empty sidewalk, and the droning sounds from a factory down the block.

On and on we wander, escorted along the empty sidewalk by a pair of lemonyellow butterflies.

Many times I trekked to a designated address and found only empty sidewalk.