Sentence examples for empty and public from inspiring English sources

But outside the city, people said streets are often empty and public spaces are almost lifeless.

Unbuilding Detroit (Radio 4) began with evocative descriptions of empty private and public spaces.

It seems to have been Africa's fate to become a theater of empty talk and public gestures.

Even apart from landmark legal successes, the narrative of Bosnia's catastrophe has been told for history's record by its victims from those blue chairs at the witness stands – even if only to empty press and public galleries.

But by now, almost all of the Garden's 18,000 seats were empty, and the public address system speakers were blaring the last few bars of Billy Joel's hit song "New York State of Mind".

Empty swimming pools and public skateboard parks gave practitioners places to display their daredevilry.

Rather than cracking down offshore, the need is for simpler, clearer tax regimes onshore, where companies do their real business.Cold arguments for sunny placesAs public faith in the universal benefits of markets and globalisation wobbles, and public coffers empty, such arguments pall.

And, like most piety, it's as empty and resonant as the public coffers.

Two men stand outside Fairway, now empty and closed to the public.

Inside the city, residents said displaced people were arriving in their hundreds and moving into empty public buildings and offices, living in appalling conditions as chillier autumn weather sets in.

Result: more bottlenecks and empty freeways as public transport can't use them and there are not that many cars in Islamabad.