Sentence examples for empty cupboard from inspiring English sources
"I feel cross," Courtney says, returning to their empty cupboard.
Altogether we have 123 projects in clinical trials -- hardly the "empty cupboard" pictured in the article.
What remained was a photograph or two, and an empty cupboard scratched with messages from friends who had come to call on him.Memories were his wealth, he told interviewers in his old age.
LL My dad's an academic and my mum was teaching in college when I was little, they are both from very poor backgrounds – and she can't have an empty cupboard, it just reminds her.
An empty cupboard is an ideal place to start storing tins.
She showed me her empty cupboards.
She thinks about her empty cupboards, her anxious mother and her hungry son.
When I see those hotel-style, minimalist bathrooms, with small empty cupboards, my heart sinks.
■ Move as much furniture as possible upstairs, along with rugs and curtains, and empty cupboards and drawers.
But it is still very real to the millions of men and women who wake up each morning to the grim reality of empty pockets and empty cupboards.
Up ahead on the bridge over the Tachira River was the border checkpoint, and on the other side an oil-rich country of empty cupboards and supermarket queues stretching for blocks.
