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Example sentences for "empty chair"

  • Then she glanced at a preparation on the stage of the microscope opposite Richenda Earle's empty chair, and yawned.

  • There was an empty chair--but no; a clatter of washing up was going on in the kitchen under the box-room; she would go up to her cubicle.

  • By this time she was thinking far more of Miriam Levey's empty chair at the new Consolidation than she was of things unaccounted for between her guest and his wife.

  • Amaryllis looked, and saw the old man leaning with both hands on the back of his son's empty chair.

  • A sorrowful thing to see--the old man of ninety clinging to the back of his son's empty chair.

  • As soon as she was alone again, Magdalen extinguished the candle, and drew an empty chair close to her own chair on the hearth.

  • At the other side was an empty chair, toward which the captain waved his persuasive hand when Magdalen came in.

  • His eyes were fixed upon the empty chair and, since he had not understood in the past, he could not express himself now.

  • And in this decision Lynda left herself so stranded and desolate that she looked up with wet eyes and saw--William Truedale's empty chair!

  • Often Lynda Kendall, sitting beside the long, low, empty chair, longed to tell her old friend all about it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "empty chair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adding more; close contact; dearest friends; embassy from; empty bottle; empty chair; empty house; empty room; empty space; empty stomach; first born; forced landing; form line; good housekeeper; her eyes; justly proud; little nutmeg; much injury; not make; our troops; slay thee; stout resistance; twenty francs; unless the; will pass; would resign