Sentence examples for locked empty from inspiring English sources

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Driving to work, "every few blocks or so, she finds herself alone at an intersection, waiting on a red light at a corner that looks and feels abandoned, stores with metal enclosures locked, empty bus shelters".

Three days later, the bus turned up — securely locked, empty except for some of Mr. Cimillo's clothes, and in perfect condition — on Route 1, two miles outside Hollywood, Fla., about a mile from the Gulfstream racetrack and 1,500 miles from the Bronx.

Inside the state's largest nursing home, elderly patients shamble past locked, empty corridors and lie in their beds.

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It was night by the time he arrived home exhausted, to find the house locked & empty.

Most of the shelters were by that point locked and empty.

Claire Smith, hoeing near Mr Bloom's firmly locked and empty villa, agreed.

As the robbers prepared to flee, the Dixons and the rest of the hostages were locked in empty cash cages.

The old building has been locked and empty since, and probably will be for months to come, with early hopes of establishing a new school there long faded.

The shed, by contrast, seems to be locked and empty, although it's clear that it has been built to be rented out.

But the station was locked and empty; its usual occupants, Engine Company 24 and Ladder Company 5, had gone to the Trade Center.

Joarder's wife and his brother's family fled after the killing, and now the courtyard of corrugated iron homes that was the tiny Hindu enclave is locked and empty.

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