Sentence examples for is close to empty from inspiring English sources

She tells me that much of the memory vault from that time is close to empty.

By 9 P.M. the place is close to empty, and the service — at first efficient and courteous — becomes languorous and offhand.

Drive until your tank is close to empty.

My fuel gauge was close to empty.

The Avenue was entirely deserted; in fact, the whole city centre was close to empty, even the usually lively bits around Canal Street.

Hunger in New York is very real, and the food pantries are close to empty".

One helpful maneuver: selecting olives from the large porcelain dish that was closest to empty because those were the ones everyone else was buying -- a mélange of multicolored olives with marinated martini onions and fava beans in vinaigrette.

In fact, it tends to increase the length of gas lines since people who are allowed to get gas on a given day may feel pressured to do so, even if they would normally wait until their gas tank was closer to empty.

When the SOC is close to being empty, the diesel engine is commanded to run close to nominal speed.

The diesel engine runs in stand-by mode if: 1) the SOC is close to the empty limit, 2) P BESS is close to the instantaneous supply limit.

My grandparents home is close to being empty.