11.   Rents were again strictly controlled, and empty houses were requisitioned.

12.   The scheme to buy up empty houses and rent them to homeless families will help to solve two problems.

13.   There was no elderly widow to con, but there was an empty house, and one he knew well.

14.   Those empty houses bore mute witness to the violence of the times.

15.   She showed him around the ground floor of the empty house.

16.   He hated coming home to the empty house.

17.   ...the empty house with its streaky windows.

18.   The empty house seemed so lonesome.

19.   I mean, what was the rush to return to the empty house?

20.   It was almost like performing to an empty house.