Sentence examples for empty leaving from inspiring English sources

With the grocery store refusing to take credit cards, she tried the four A.T.M.'s in her neighborhood and found them all empty, leaving her with no money in hand.

In contrast, what could be called "Operation Begging Bowl" after the latest war in Iraq has come up empty, leaving us stuck with the bill for the invasion and occupation -- the full extent of which is only now becoming apparent.

And rather than pay benefits out of a pot of past contributions, notional accounts remain empty, leaving pensions to be financed from current taxes, sometimes supplemented by a central trust fund.Even if China's pension contributions were zealously guarded, they would fall short of the amounts required.

Chazelle is interested in Mia not as a character or as a person but as an ornament, a symbol of a kind of dream and a kind of success, and he puts her into his film empty, leaving her to be filled solely by the personality and the talent of Stone herself — and it's a mark of Stone's artistry that she puts so much into so little.

By the 1980s over twenty store fronts were empty, leaving the bulk of the stores in the district occupied by antique shops, thrift stores, or repair technicians.

Observations also showed that sometimes, these water tanks were empty, leaving people with no other alternative water sources than the river and unprotected water springs.

This reflex probably originates in the heart and is triggered by activation of myocardial mechanoreceptors, which are stimulated by vigorous contractions around a nearly empty left ventricular cavity.

The seats quickly emptied, leaving only the hard-core baseball — and ballet — fans behind.

They grew the embryos in human eggs that had been emptied, leaving just a tough outer layer.

"Come empty, you leave empty," Friedman said to me one evening.

That the search for W.M.D. in Iraq came up empty leaves the rationale for invading Iraq emptier still.