Sentence examples for open emptying from inspiring English sources

She went inside and crashed around the house, effecting a transformation: washing dishes, scrubbing the stove and the kitchen floor, throwing the windows wide open, emptying ashtrays with a clang of the dustbin lid.

Determined to kill his ailing dad, he goes about it any way he can devise, leaving a window open, emptying the medicine from his capsules, finally attempting something more drastic – at which point the camera swoops up to the sky, as if in vertiginous shock.

After his announcement, at downtown Police Headquarters, reporters were shown to a 24th-floor office where cartons stacked from floor to ceiling were being opened, emptied and cataloged by a half-dozen laboratory workers in face masks and rubber gloves.

The highway was open, empty, each car and truck separated by a minute or two.

It turns around one unresolvable conflict – between (wo)man and the wide open, empty spaces of the United States.

The western imagination has tended to exercise a prejudice against open, empty landscapes: moors, peat bogs, deserts, prairies.

But the MAXXI would open empty, partly because the museum has not yet acquired nearly enough contemporary art to fill the vast gallery spaces (it won't be a fully functioning museum until next spring, at the earliest).

Acedia's sufferers were engaged in solitary, sedentary, cerebral effort toward a clear final goal — but a goal that could be reached only by crossing an open, empty field with few signposts.

Q: My co-op building has a long-standing major sanitation problem created by pigeons that roost in open, empty air-conditioner sleeves and make the building and the windows below -- mine included -- filthy.

The encounters take place in what looks like the open, empty plaza in front of a temple or church, though the building is actually the vacant Depression-era bathhouse of the McCarren Park swimming pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

They wanted to a create a large world without open, empty spaces.