Empty in example sentence

I remember when this phrase was last used: in 1991, when the chairman of the European Council of Ministers visited what was still Yugoslavia and eagerly accepted the empty promises of Slobodan Milosevic and his clique that they were ready to accept European pleas for a peaceful resolution to the conflicts there.

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There are more buildings that are empty or in disrepair than occupied and in use.

And whenever we would gather the fellows after that, we would leave a chair empty for her spirit.

They're the veins of the ecosystem, and they're often empty veins.

Einstein realized that if space were empty, if the universe were empty, it would be like this picture, except for maybe without the helpful grid drawn on it.

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