Sentence examples for empty on the ground from inspiring English sources

The purse was found, empty, on the ground outside of the Applied Arts Building.

It lies in the millions of rooms, the thousands of flats and houses, lying empty on the ground or "virtual" in the air over low-density urban acres.

The multicolored backpacks, with their books and papers emptied on the ground to prove that they are not weapons.

As I approached, I saw that his ashtray was full of cigarette butts, that he'd set a long row of the beer bottles he'd emptied on the ground beside him.

An unlikely solution finally came on Monday: an empty storefront on the ground floor of a co-op apartment building, 704 St. Nicholas Avenue, at 145th Street.

Reluctantly he sits down and starts picking jagged rocks the size of walnuts from the tops of his wellington boots, placing them on an empty sack on the ground in front of him.

One of the cabs jumped onto a sidewalk and crashed into an empty store on the ground floor of an office tower.

Ed remembers walking down a fancy shopping street in London when a teenaged girl in front of him finished drinking a can of soda and threw the empty can on the ground.

As long as this second search is, for partisan reasons, conducted behind closed doors, or blunted by the cynical belief that triumph is all that really matters, it is likely to come up as empty as the one on the ground in Iraq.

The show opens with a street of sounds – or, more properly, the sounds of the street – in the form of 11 video projections made on dawn walks through London's East End on weekends, where yesterday's empties huddle on the ground by bus stops, stand abandoned on windowsills or scatter in shards across the pavement.

"And they totally emptied out the ground floor," she added.