Sentence examples for empty but this from inspiring English sources

The place is empty, but this doesn't surprise me at all.

So much arena bombast is cavernously empty but this confluence of booming beats and religious self-doubt thrills on every level.

Normally when we march, the streets are empty, but this time they are going to be thick with people," said Simon Biggs, head security of the event, at the NF's recent annual general meeting.

These gaps may be occupied by other types of material entities or they may be "empty", but this is irrelevant to their ontological nature as group.

Similarly, the bladder was empty but this was because the fetus micturated and urine leaked into the cyst.

Ibuprofen can upset some people's stomachs if empty, but this isn't the case for everyone.

The briefing room at the base always appears empty, but on this post-mission visit, its emptiness had the stink of failure.

Before the challenge, I would have just put the dishwasher on half-empty, but this time I left it and waited until it was full.

Judy McNish, staffing the popular Aventis Pharmaceuticals booth, said, "You would think that with unemployment as low as it is that this place would be empty, but look at this line".

"Everyone said, 'Your wall will be empty,' but look at this," Blumenstein said, his hand sweeping over a wall with photos of 18 athletes.

DESCRIBING Great Plains communities that, "like weeds, spring up when it rains, dry up when it stops," Wright Morris once noted, "The withered towns are empty, but not uninhabited". This predicament -- in which the landscape's sheer vastness overwhelms its residents -- has always captivated American writers.