Sentence examples for empty abandoned from inspiring English sources

"By the way we are sleeping in your room now, it's safer," she tells me, of my empty, abandoned space.

As recently as 20 years ago, most of the cave dwellings were empty — abandoned for more modern, concrete homes.

These days it continues to mirror New Orleans but in its post-Hurricane Katrina phase: empty, abandoned, economically devastated, rife with crime.

Mr. Jaquith began sleeping in an empty, abandoned apartment in the basement of a high-rise in Queens that had belonged to another crack cocaine user he knew.

ONE of the best spots to see a band in New York this summer and early fall was an empty, abandoned pool in a Brooklyn park.

Under General McChrystal's command, Marines have been instructed to look less like invaders and occupiers and more like protectors — and that means hunkering down in an empty, abandoned school still smeared with Taliban graffiti, and traveling in foot patrols instead of armored convoys.

"Only that it seemed emptied, an abandoned city, which is odd since there were people everywhere — to the point where I sometimes couldn't move along the sidewalk — all of them rushing by me as if they knew something I didn't, as if every street and avenue offered a series of doors only they could open".

George Clarke, TV's restoration man, has warned us that in many northern UK towns and cities, whole streets of (usually) terraced or semi-detached, perfectly habitable houses have been emptied and abandoned, awaiting demolition, thanks to misguided planning and regeneration decisions.

He tracked down the rest of the boxes emptied from an abandoned storage garage, amassing a collection of hundreds of thousands of frames shot in New York, Chicago, France, South America, and Asia between the nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-seventies.

The few that were not abandoned emptied rapidly today after a formal warning the Pentagon gave Western news organizations, saying reporters in the Iraqi capital should "not go near any military assets or buildings that are used by the Iraqi government".

The makers of Irn‑Bru – known as "Scotland's other national drink" – announced last August that the cash for empties system would be abandoned as it was no longer economical to wash, sterilise and refill the bottles.