Sentence examples for it stands empty from inspiring English sources

First shown at the Clocktower, it consists of a full-scale canvas tent of a kind used in refugee camps; although it stands empty, its roof and sides have been embroidered with names of the uprooted villages, with each name sewn by friends of the artist, many of them Palestinian.

Now it stands empty, another white elephant on the American landscape.

For nearly forty years the Harmony Silk Factory was the most important establishment in the country, but now it stands empty and silent and dusty.

Its magnificent China Hall, whose windows were positioned in order to secure the best light for painting china, is used for the British Ceramics Biennial (the fourth will be held in 2015), but otherwise it stands empty.

Now it stands empty except for a small group of dedicated makers who are slowly turning the brewery into one of the most unique workspaces I've ever seen.

Centre Point, completed in 1966, has a special status in cultural history, for the fact that it stood empty for years while its owner, Harry Hyams, tried to find the one big corporation that would take it at the rents he wanted.

Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "coarse in the extreme," while John Betjeman referred to its "flashy and international style of crystalline concrete". For years it stood empty, seen as a brash monument to the greed of its developer, property tycoon Harry Hyams.

Even if we let it stand empty.

A small building next to it stood empty.

The condition of the house is said to have deteriorated in the 18 months it stood empty.

For years it stood empty, seen as a brash monument to the greed of its developer, property tycoon Harry Hyams.