Sentence examples for could be empty from inspiring English sources

Government coffers could be empty as soon as July, shortly after this month's pivotal elections.

If growth and trade stumble while shipping lines are piling on extra capacity, the result could be empty holds, plunging shipping rates and rapidly sinking profits.

The writer finds that her space, as she looks up at what could be empty sky between walls, contains movement – admirable!

From another, it is a huge risk: the local economy is in tatters, and there is the prospect that many of those 70,000-plus seats could be empty.

For a second nothing happens and it's as if I'm looking at a still photograph, or even the wrong spot (the launchpad could be empty if it weren't for a hint of orange – the top of Atlantis's external fuel tank – peeking above grey scaffolding).

For a given dmax, the set A B could be empty.

The fire sputtered, and the pan filled with water faster than it could be emptied.

And it would probably save money, if hospital beds could be emptied of people who could manage at home with a bit of extra help.

But even with modifications to height restrictions — they are unlikely to be doubled — it would take years before buildings could be emptied of tenants and rebuilt.

Curator Mark Bills recalled that by the time he arrived, the walls were streaming with damp and heavy rain filled buckets faster than they could be emptied.

"Snyder insisted that all N.Y.C. public schools be built of fireproof materials, and he developed an interlocking type of stairwells, such that the buildings could be emptied within three minutes," she writes in the book.