Recyclable item

Usage examples of empty.

The aliens targeted their blue lightning on the empty projectiles, giving the blitzkrieg scoops a few more seconds to escape.

She sighed, reached out to close her eyes and, with a little cry, snatched her hand away from the empty sockets.

In the small hours the common room slowly emptied as even those who had rooms abovestairs staggered off to find their beds.

Located where the Tailaroam River emptied into the Glittergeist Sea, the port was abustle with traffic as cargo was transferred from barges and keelboats to ocean-going freighters or animal-drawn wagons destined for the numerous towns and cities sprinkled through the vast forest known as the Bell woods.

Parade Square seemed abustle now, whereas it usually seemed empty to me.

Philas, her face drab and empty, her hair lying limply against her angular skull, looked to Adda as if she had nothing left to lose anyway.

Finding a mostly empty box of sugar coated cereal, she sat down at the kitchen counter with it and ate it dry, wondering where Adonis had gone off to.

Beyond her were the two empty seats of Frey and Gerda, then Bragi and Idun, old Aegir and his wife, and brooding, silent Tyr.

A servo arm located behind the bar, which glowed with its own colony of bioluminescent bacteria, gently picked up the aerogel cylinder and placed it in sequence behind half a dozen other empties, to be refilled in its turn.

The afterburning climb had nearly emptied her tanks, but she had enough to make Langley without tanking again.

The barn was empty, and the concrete aisleway felt cold and threatening in comparison to the bright rectangles of warm sunlight framed by the doorways at either end.

Pagans, who had long wondered at the strange report of an empty sanctuary, were at a loss to discover what could be the object, or what could be the instruments, of a worship which was destitute of temples and of altars, of priests and of sacrifices.

So he commenced to bargain, and in the end the person of Meriem passed from the possession of the black chieftain into that of the two Swedes in consideration of six yards of Amerikan, three empty brass cartridge shells and a shiny, new jack knife from New Jersey.

If Othea emptied her cup before the Sons of Annam, the titan would stop them.

As he stared at the empty features Apolline snatched hold of his hand.