Sentence examples for an empty vase from inspiring English sources

Near the envelope stand a jar of paint brushes and an empty vase.

Mrs. Whealy recommends placing them in an empty vase and letting them dry naturally into an arching shape.

Then she'd set the table and stuck an empty vase in the middle of it — "He'll bring flowers, you wait and see.

Beyond the de Koonings, And the treasures no one saw, Was an empty vase.

Set the roses aside in an empty vase.

Mix blue, powdered floral dye in an empty vase.

Should the neighbouring one be unkempt, it will be weeded and a fresh or plastic flower or two placed in the empty vase.

The Virgin looks alarmed, right hand arresting her visitor's advance… Harriet's eye records the details: the green folds of the angel's dress, the red beneath it, the mark in the sky that is a dove, the Virgin's book, the stately pillars and the empty vase, the Virgin's slipper, the bare feet of the angel.

And I place them in the empty vase beside the jar with brushes.

The empty vase on the floor has bloomed into three vases crowded with lilies, poppies and roses.

Being friendly and equitable is a necessary attitude for a social constructivist teacher, who is considered an advanced learner (Vygotsky 1978) who facilitates students' learning by negotiating (Hand, Treagust and Vance 1997), rather than a person who transmits factual knowledge to students and considers them as empty vases.