Sentence examples for empty plates from inspiring English sources

Little faces with empty plates".

They were stunned as the boys laid the warm empty plates in front of them.

But Mr. Lang's gaze was focused on the empty plates being cleared by the busboys.

As she returned, she spotted the empty plates of her two guards.

Workers raised their empty plates toward the windows of senators' offices that overlook the atrium where they gathered.

I never usually finish a whole one, but here I find myself staring at empty plates with some surprise.

Stephanie Moore and Jennifer McGraw are sitting at a table cluttered with empty plates, cups and bowls.

"Pour me a cup of coffee," she'd say, come ten o'clock, our empty plates still in front of us.

This wasn't the first time; empty plates had become common in the camp during the past year.

"Where e'er we go, we celebrate the land that makes us refugees/From fear of priests with empty plates/From guilt and weeping effigies," wrote Chevron.

During a question and answer session, one small business owner, Gary McDonnell of catering company Empty Plates, claimed he had lost almost £50,000 due to companies changing their name in order to avoid having to pay him.