11.   Classes will have one or two more empty desks.

12.   Empty desks proliferate as workers hit planes, trains and automobiles to go home for the holidays.

13.   For President Lars Koland, those empty desks bespeak common sense, not laziness.

14.   He invited the group to a stark room adorned with chairs in a U shape and a desk empty except for a clock and a glass of water.

15.   He said talent raids occurred because many U.S. firms had failed to create the large, in-house talent pools they need to fill empty executive desks.

16.   Like so many others, the teacher was unable to handle nagging questions about the empty desk the girl left behind.

17.   One sits at an empty desk and plays with an aging adding machine.

18.   Only an empty desk left that way by owners who abhor this kind of non-partisan initiative.

19.   Patty spreads out the funnies on the nearest empty desk and begins to read.

20.   She wrote her memoir on legal pads, borrowing empty desks.