Sentence examples for encountered empty from inspiring English sources

Wherever they went in Arab centers of population, committee members encountered empty streets and Palestinian Arabs fleeing restaurants in fear for their lives.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — In the newly won districts around this southern city, American forces are encountering empty homes and farm buildings left so heavily booby-trapped by Taliban insurgents that the Americans have been systematically destroying hundreds of them, according to local Afghan authorities.

Combining landscape types, the proportion of beetles encountering pheromone + kairomone-baited traps (0.61) was not greater than the proportion encountering empty traps (0.50).

Because some trials conclude earlier than others, this averaging procedure begins to encounter empty cells at the end of the trajectories.

A quarter mile away, the crowd encountered an empty police car and within moments it was aflame.

So, if you're looking for women on Chatroulette, be forewarned: you're more likely to encounter an empty chair.

Its aim must be that the grout encounters an "empty" pore system rather than a system partially filled with highly mobile constituents.

Since the 1990s however, NYPD officers have routinely compelled New Yorkers during stop-and-frisk encounters to empty their pockets.

Encountering an empty face-neighbor (denoted by a zero value) indicates a photon passing through a boundary face.

One of the mobile vesicles from step 27 may encounter an empty site at the active zone and dock to it.

Families and a stream of rain-drenched runners, fresh from the Central Park Father's Day race, were descending the stairs when they encountered a mysterious empty subway train that roared into the station, slowed and sped up again without taking on passengers.