Sentence examples for empty baskets from inspiring English sources

Empty baskets whizzed past us and jolted to a stop at the tunnel's entrance.

As our car inched forward, we watched dozens of local people, mostly women, empty baskets of rocks on the dirt road to create a roadbed.

At the faintest hum of an outboard engine, some 200 villagers, essentially the entire mobile population of Yagloo, run to the banks of the swollen Shabelle River with empty baskets and expectant eyes, hoping for powdered milk, a few handfuls of grain, some malaria pills, anything.

And then the villagers saw him loosely swinging the empty basket across the clearing to his hut.

On a typical trip to the supermarket shopping for food, a consumer would end up with an almost empty basket if they attempted to avoid products wrapped with plastics.

I climbed five flights of stairs, each shabbier than the last, and saw, through an opening in the stairwell, an empty basket being lowered down the side of the building on a long rope.

Stepping through the curtained doorway, you took an empty basket off the counter, loaded it with skewers of meat, fish and vegetables, ordered a chilled beer or a bowl of cold sake, found a space by one of the open pits, and grilled your selected morsels to perfection.Bliss, but woe betide the clot who smoothered sauce over a juicy item and returned it to the smoldering coals.

And if you have an empty basket with you, you're likely to fill it.

But there's more to it: Retailers hope that carrying an empty basket will prompt you to fill it.

"[Organized people] won't throw a bunch of something into one big empty basket," she says.

On March 13 , 1848 the system was completed, and the team planned to test it by pulling the empty basket across.