Sentence examples for vast vacant from inspiring English sources

In a vast, vacant square by the river, King José I straddles a transfixed horse that "trotted motionless toward India in search of eight-armed concubines".

Another wave of journalists descended on the city with another narrative: Starving artists, neo-pastoral farmers and plain old-fashioned hipsters were suddenly being drawn to its vast vacant lots, cheap housing stock and gritty image.

Here, though, with the vast vacant landscape, there is no need for a return....just accuracy at 140/kilometers an hour to bring down a running supper.

Tiraspol's main street, Ulitsa 25 Oktober (a reference to Transnistria's independence day), is a vast, vacant runway, the sidewalks of which barely anyone treads save for a few pensioners.

"At this point I want to wrap the dancers completely in cotton wool," Mr. Wheeldon said last week, sitting in a vast and vacant New York State Theater.

On a vast, mostly vacant and formerly rubble-strewn expanse of the South Bronx, 35 three-family town houses, their two-tone facades set back behind modest gates and greenery, have been snatched up by eager buyers.

For decades vast lands lay vacant there waiting for business and residential development.

"Obviously we don't have vast amounts of vacant land," he said in a phone interview.

Whitman's "noiseless patient spider" comes to mind: "It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament out of itself" onto the blank page, a "vacant vast surrounding".

NAMA has also been fielding a number of queries from artists who want to take advantage of its vast holdings of vacant buildings.

Germany is in the process of clearing vast swathes of vacant housing to create open space, to mask the fact their population is starting to shrink.