Sentence examples for empty lift from inspiring English sources
In America the flu season is so bad that many travellers are delaying their trips or are taking precautions such as avoiding the hotel gym or waiting for an empty lift.
✒It was hard not to enjoy Radio Times TV editor Alison Graham's giant harrumph attacking the idea that Twitter now wields more influence than pro reviewers (Twitter "is really just yelling down an empty lift shaft … it can only react. Critics are the influential ones. WE are the ones who start the conversation").
An empty lift glides up to a floor of deserted offices, where I wait by myself for a while until a tall, strikingly self-possessed woman appears and greets me with the elegant serenity of a Parisian hostess receiving a dinner party guest.
Before we left, he passed on some Vegas wisdom: "Run if you see an empty lift shaft".
In the distance, two empty lifts rise and fall, out of time with each other, as they make their way towards the roof, then begin a slow descent, disappearing into the shafts and continuing down to the ground floor.
He had wanted to place figures on the false floor he constructed at the level of the bridge, where, in the distance, he had also installed a pair of empty lifts that rose and fell through the full height of the space.
No. 6!" They roll Simon to the empty shelf, lift him up and slide him in.
Flatten the empty edges, lift the rolled leaf carefully on to the pan and lay over the tomatoes with the loose end down.
Follow these instructions several times using an empty Hoyer lift, then practice on a volunteer who has full mobility.
Post-hoc analysis revealed that the ravens chose the baited bowl significantly more often in all test-conditions when compared to the control condition (Holm-Sidak tests with N = 6; both bowls lifted: t = 6.184, P<0.001; baited bowl lifted: t = 6.685, P<0.001, empty bowl lifted: t = 4.011, P<0.001).
Additional comparisons revealed that the ravens chose the baited bowl significantly more often than the keas in all three test conditions (Holm-Sidak - tests with N = 13; both bowls lifted: t = 2.041, P = 0.047; baited bowl lifted: t = 2.67, P = 0.011, empty bowl lifted: t = 4.328, P<0.001) but not in the control condition (Holm-Sidak - test: N = 13, t = 0.709, P = 0.482; see Fig. 7).
