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Examples
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If the cost of filling them goes up, they will remain empty.
Immigration 2010
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And until then, many pill bottles will remain empty.
Melody Serafino: The Pill Bottle is Still Half-Empty for Many AIDS Patients Melody Serafino 2010
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If the cost of filling them goes up, they will remain empty.
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If the cost of filling them goes up, they will remain empty.
Stromata Blog: 2007
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The Department of Defense, having vowed to identify all war remains, has ruled that the Tomb of the Vietnam Unknown Soldier will remain empty.
Parsons, Donald E. 1990
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Let her have our sympathy and our prayers, as she goes to her desolate home at the West; there to realize, as she does not yet realize, the full severity of her bereavement, and to know something of the bitter grief which filled the heart of Naomi, when she said to her former neighbors, upon her return to Bethlehem -- I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty.
A Sermon, Occasioned by the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. 1865
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In this sense, therefore, in this practical, scriptural, Christian sense, those many young minds, which we have seen so often, may truly be called empty.
The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps Thomas Arnold 1818
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All this he enlarges upon, to aggravate his present calamities; like Naomi, "I went out full," but am brought "home again empty."
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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It was somehow sad to see the downsized 2008 edition of E3, which a lot of industry players characterized as empty.
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I went to the art show, which was so spread out in a very large room that it look kind of empty.
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