1.   He was allowed this in return for taking detention, which usually involved sitting in an empty classroom with Mafouz and the Husayn twins.

2.   He arrives at his school to an empty classroom.

3.   Other districts have lost population and have empty classrooms.

4.   PHOENIX - Father AntonRenna was rattling around his empty classroom, rain pounding the courtyard outside the open windows.

5.   Professors who resist the demand for grade-inflation may find themselves embarrassed by empty classrooms.

6.   Schools switched off lights in empty classrooms each time students left to go to physical education classes.

7.   The professor might as well have been lecturing to an empty classroom, with the entire population of Planet Earth playing hooky.

8.   When the girl was in the empty classroom, one of the teen-agers held her down as the other three raped her, police said.

9.   A school teacher who reported being shot in her empty classroom confessed to authorities that she shot herself.

10.   Education officials have rejected suggestions that these empty classrooms be reopened, as most are situated in remote rural areas.