Sentence examples for empty to work from inspiring English sources

In some areas, there are now abundant overgrown yards, boarded-up windows and concerns about sewage systems too empty to work properly.

On a rainy Sunday night, Haj Kadour was at the school taking advantage of the empty halls to work.

The city is becoming known for its thriving urban agriculture movement, as depopulated neighborhoods put empty lots to work as community gardens.

You'll need to have a clean, empty space to work with.

It was pretty much there, structurally, but without the finishing touches, so we had a rough, empty blank canvas to work with.

Rather than leave homes empty, we want to work with charities to refurbish properties that can then be used to provide specialist provision, or returned to council management.

And I love the tabula rasa of the empty page, trying to work out how this thing is going to be staged.

George Clarke, of Channel 4's Great British Property Scandal, was appointed "empty homes adviser" to work with the scheme, but he has broken ranks – calling it "the social cleansing of an area not only currently occupied, but very much in demand".

She added: "David Cameron's talk of full employment will seem like empty words to working people after five years of talents wasted and opportunities denied".

The fields are empty and Jeter starts to work like an unemployed minor leaguer.

With their bag of motivational tactics and strategic adjustments close to empty, the Jets returned to work today from their bye weekend with a last-ditch plan to tweak the defense to free up linebacker Sam Cowart, the jewel of their underachieving free-agent class.