empty
Example Sentences
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Four black bags of empty DVD boxes and toys so damp they were unusable - these are just some of the items left outside charity shops recently.
From BBC
"We are fighting a brutal regime with empty hands," he said.
From BBC
A senior Merseyside police officer urged parents last year to "please talk to your children about the dangers of entering empty and derelict buildings", after a spate of trespass incidents in Southport.
From BBC
The tanker, which turned out to be empty of oil, was seized Wednesday in a raid by special-operations forces.
The modified equations, known as the Finsler-Friedmann equations, naturally predict an accelerating universe even in empty space.
From Science Daily
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