21.   Skateboarders love the quiet and safety of the empty street, and so do nearby office workers like myself.

22.   Streams of refugees from the fighting moved through the nearly empty streets, trundling their belongings on carts and three-wheel bicycle taxis.

23.   Suddenly the empty street filled with people, as if created from the dust.

24.   The army fired at the building with dozens of bursts from a rapid-fire anti-aircraft weapon that echoed throughout the empty streets.

25.   The boarded-up bars and stores and the empty streets made what is normally a relentlessly lively town seem almost dead.

26.   The empty streets echo with the choir of hundreds of TV sets.

27.   The general strike Monday was a Palestinian show of strength, and it was effective, judging from the empty streets in Ramallah and other Palestinian cities.

28.   The soldiers arrived just before dawn Saturday, filing down the empty streets as roosters crowed and sleepy-eyed residents peered out their windows.

29.   The strike was a Palestinian show of strength, and it was effective, judging from the empty streets in Palestinian cities.

30.   They paced the empty streets in hooded sweatshirts and oversized Tommy Hilfiger jackets, staring down passing patrol cars.