1.   Homes left empty without good reason by any public authority will be transferred to a better social landlord.

2.   We will legislate to bring into use dwellings left empty without reasonable cause for more than a year.

3.   But the city, she said, will be empty without her husband.

4.   Even now, her house in Topeka, Kan., still feels empty without her boys.

5.   My life is pathetically empty without turkey on Thanksgiving.

6.   Telephone booths stand empty without phones.

7.   Tourists were scarcer than usual in early November, and the islands seemed empty without them, local residents said.

8.   Citizenship is empty without concern for our fellow citizens, without the ties that bind us to one another and build a common good.