Sentence examples for empty jacket from inspiring English sources

Embarking on a mazy run across the Wembley turf, the fan evaded one policeman, who groped forlornly at his empty jacket, before being rugby tackled by a second, who lost his helmet in the process.

For most of history, prosthetics have been designed to make life more comfortable for adults, to afford the wearer some limited movement, and to avoid drawing attention to their disability (by filling an empty jacket sleeve, or concealing a stump).

No sound of men passing, no roaring engine, no tremulous shaking of the ears of wheat as the sickle or the whirlwind of the harvester approach") and his skill at enacting physicality — pleasure, fatigue, hunger or the suffering of a tortured striker who, in the book's unforgettable centerpiece, "sits slumped in the chair like an empty jacket".

"The nameless worker, the empty jacket — that could be anybody," Ms. Fukada said.

They are beckoned by (and sometimes obliged to wrestle with) bodiless phantom arms that slide into the sleeves of empty jackets.

Among them I discovered a gem: a studio-cut acetate of "Like a Rolling Stone". Carefully packing it into an empty LP jacket, I carried it home and that weekend played it more than once in my apartment.

The two keep bumping into each other on set — Bejo has a brilliant moment doing a pantomime with the star's empty suit jacket — but it seems fated to end there.

They had emptied his jacket pockets.

We walked over to a massive slinky: empty cable jacketing from Japan that had arrived in a plywood box stamped "Fragile".

Apparently he expected them to form a kind of literary autobiography, but instead they just feel like padding, or like so many empty dust jackets.

We walked over to a massive slinky: empty cable jacketing from Japan that had arrived in a plywood box stamped "Fragile". The slinky contained half a mile of metal.