Sentence examples for empty bomb from inspiring English sources

His course handbook gradually thickened into something he could sell as an all-purpose guide to Europe, and before long he was running itineraryless minibus tours through the continent, putting up paying customers of all ages in hostels, empty bomb shelters and a 50-cents-a-night communal tent in the Munich Botanical Gardens.

Plastic baby dolls, suitcases filled with wind-up toys, strings of paint-can lids and neckties, a toilet seat, a cuckoo clock, a telephone, store-mannequin legs, mousetraps, an empty bomb casing, and dangling dentures cover every surface of Mr. Vautier's room-size shrine to orgiastic consumption.

However, just as looters emptied bombed houses of their valuable contents, flooded houses temporarily abandoned by their owners are in danger of suffering a similar fate.

The museum stood empty and bomb-damaged.

Many airports were nearly silent, their halls swept by soldiers and emptied by bomb scares.

Mr. Chipperfield's four-story building, with a sandstone facade broken by large windows, is to rise beginning next year on a site empty since bombing in World War II destroyed part of the former Prussian Finance Ministry.

Griffin bought, for a meagre hundred dollars on Craigslist, a military practice bomb, empty and unusable, which he hopes to fill with poetry (he's already received one submission from a soldier), and to doll up like a car, perhaps with racing stripes.

In 1948, a federal housing bureaucrat named Paul Oppermann, trying to come to terms with the perils of the nuclear age, proposed a solution to the problem of protecting America's cities from the bomb: empty them out preëmptively by encouraging the population to move to suburbs and small towns of fifty thousand or fewer.

He repeatedly bombed empty police stations.

It eventually passed over them and emptied a barrel bomb on an adjacent hill.

In its reprisals, the Israeli Army has often bombed empty buildings, hoping for a high symbolic value rather than a high body count, although many more Palestinians than Israelis have died in the conflict.