Sentence examples for empty businesses from inspiring English sources

Scattered around the Laventura sat empty businesses, their doors padlocked, vines crawling over them, as if to reclaim them for nature, while on the street loitered a fleet of people pushing grocery carts.

The county, it turned out, was more than $5 billion in debt -- meaning that courthouses, jails and sheriff's precincts had to be closed so that Wall Street banks could be paid...Homes stood empty, businesses were boarded up, and parts of already-blighted Birmingham began to take on the feel of a ghost town.

But he thought it was an empty business".

It's not as though it's going to disturb their (empty) business.

When a passenger buys a ticket on a flight that is predicted to have empty business class seats, he or she will be invited to bid for an upgrade.

Cameron has toured so many empty business parks and factories now that he must be totally dislocated, like some infinitely duller version of an arena rock star whose manager has to slap him awake and tell him he's in Minneapolis.

Airports were emptied, businesses shut down and millions of people had their daily lives disrupted.

At the clinic, I waited in a small room at the end of an empty hall in an even emptier business building.

The neighborhood immediately surrounding the property -- an area designated by the city for urban renewal -- is a mix of empty buildings, businesses in former residential properties, restaurants and an auto repair franchise.

Fossard concluded, based in part on SEC filings, that while several of Singer's companies bearing the Elliot title were ostensibly based in New York, in fact they "were all kind of empty," while businesses were based in countries like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.

Roads are nearly empty, and business slows to a crawl at the Plymouth Country Store.