Sentence examples for empty skyline from inspiring English sources

The unprepared visitor to Glasgow looks in vain for teeming tenements blackened still by grime and soot, and searches an empty skyline for the thicket of cranes that rimmed the cacophonous shipyards.

Sitting in a darkened movie theater is one way to remember such a painful day: another is listening to an evening performance of Verdi's Requiem by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Liberty State Park, looking across the river at Lower Manhattan's achingly empty skyline.

The four designs chosen as finalists each feature one prominent structure that encourages visitors to look toward Manhattan, toward the empty place in the skyline that the twin towers once dominated.

Pausing to squint at the empty spot in the skyline, he said, "I guess you could say it's man at its worst that brought about man at its best around here".

Walking to the Strand along Beach Road, holding tightly to my grandmother's hand, the skyline of the empty docks gaped ragged still from the bombs, the war was with us both, but absent from the reality of my own life.

Not only will they fill the achingly empty space of the downtown skyline, but I can easily imagine a collective hush coming over the city as the silent specters appear -- a daily pause in the city's mad rush, a chance to reflect and recommit to the ways we vowed that we would change after that horrible day.

Between my first visit in the late 90s and my second in 2014, an entire new city has soared into the skyline of once empty West Bay.

As a rising number of half-finished and half-empty condo projects clutter the skyline, state and city officials have begun developing programs to turn hundreds of these apartments into moderate-income housing.

As the sun sinks and the moon begins to rise over Guangzhou's polluted skyline, Marie leaves empty-handed.

The skyline just looks so empty.

I give my tribute to 9/11 every day; I look up to the city skyline and at that empty space, and I wish I could see again those ugly towers and the smiling faces of those who worked there and whom "somebody" seems willing to forget about and go on as if nothing happened.