• In the empty room stood the tangled metal wreck of what was once a four-poster bed.

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  • It sounded like a typical soundcheck, but I looked across the empty room to see that Kidjo was dancing her way through it, full-on.

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  • The girl with the soda snapped a few photographs of the reception area and the empty conference room next to it and signed the guest book.

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  • Even so, the maitre d' insisted that bar patrons not walk through the empty dining room and instead use a hallway skirting the area -- a hint as to what kind of atmosphere the hotel tries to maintain.

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  • In the morning, the room was empty.

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  • When the silence of an empty room ignites a visceral impending doom reaction, challenge why you shudder out of terror.

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  • They both went in a great hurry, and when they were gone the house seemed dreadfully quiet and empty, and the children wandered from one room to another and looked at the bits of paper and string on the floors left over from the packing, and not yet cleared up, and wished they had something to do.

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  • As you arrive, one of the first things you notice is that the waiting room is almost empty.

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  • All of the Fernando de Noronha archipelago is fantastically empty, as the hyper-protected islands have room for only about 700 tourists at once (along with fewer than 4, 000 locals), and those visitors have their choice of 17 beaches, most of which are easier to reach than Sancho.

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  • The room is now almost empty and Petraeus stops to give this comment to a reporter.

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  • Plastic wrappings, scattered cash, and empty computer boxes covered the living room.

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  • U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said she has visited the Dutch Room at the museum several times and has seen the empty frames where the paintings once hung.

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  • Hyeonduk Seunim gestured us into a spare, empty room with a low table at the centre.

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  • Add in a guarantee of fast, attentive service in an empty, beautifully minimalist dining room, and the place becomes an anti-destination destination.

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  • When Kris and I bought furniture for my Man Room (which had remained empty for the first five years we lived in this house), we bought nice stuff.

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  • His lunch, which he ate on his own in an enormous, empty dining room while reading a book under the absentminded gaze of the elderly maid, and the black-and-white gaze of his deceased wife looking out from photographs in ornate silver frames, was light: soup and a small portion of fish and mashed potatoes, some of which he would allow to go cold.

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  • On a recent afternoon, Mr. Collins pointed out the library, game room, swimming pool and tiny, empty fitness room.

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  • This happened because I had entered the room after she did and had simply fallen into the empty chair directly across from her.

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  • Banish any images of rock legend: forget about dissipated drummers slumped in a junkie haze in some stadium locker room, forget roadies hurling televisions and empty bottles of Jack Daniels from hotel balconies into the pool.

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  • Despite fears that Las Vegas would suffer from an excess of new hotels, a torrent of visitors left not a single room empty for a single day at MGM Grand's namesake casino-hotel in the second quarter.

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  • There were even pre-round shenanigans when Bradley went into the champions' locker room Thursday morning to find his clubs spread out on the floor and his open umbrella near his empty golf bag, courtesy of Dufner.

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  • Airlines keep shrinking the size of seats to stuff more people onto planes, those empty middle seats that once provided a little more room are now occupied and more people with tickets are being turned away because flights are overbooked.

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