Sentence examples for run empty from inspiring English sources

Some have argued that Hellenic Railways should shut down the majority of its routes, especially in the mountainous Peloponnese region where trains manned by drivers being paid as much as $130,000 a year frequently run empty.

But many rail businesses regard the rail fans as nostalgia-addled fanatics who expect them to run empty passenger trains at a financial loss, simply to conjure nice memories and provide the occasional photographic moment.

In the United States 15% of those trucks run empty while the remaining 85% run on average at just 64% capacity, according to Jason Mathers of the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

The secret-sauce bottles containing trading algorithms and the like had run empty, and to fill the void my new friends and I turned to Scotch — thirty-year-old Balvenie and twenty-one-year-old Hibiki.

That way the cash machines of a healthy bank are guaranteed never to run empty.

If this trend continues for several frames, the encoder buffer may run empty, thereby wasting channel bandwidth.

So our bloodcup runs empty of urge.

For some, the tank was running empty.

"We are all running empty hotels," Damoah said.

What it means: This is to stop the crazy practice of airlines running empty or partially empty flights.

But compared with the first few weeks, when some trains ran empty, use is clearly on the rise.