half-empty

Julianne Moore and John Lithgow dance in a half empty club to weird ringtone muzak.

Moscow officials insist that the hospitals listed for closure lacked professional services and often stayed half empty.

That makes everybody feel good and talk about how the system can work and so on, but I see the glass as half-empty.

Some of these buses—the settler buses—are heavily subsidized by the Israeli government, and thus often travel the city half empty.

Now he says, “There are two glasses, one half full, one half empty, and they stand side by side.”

The woman holds in her claw-like hand a half-empty bottle of cheap red wine.

It pulled up suddenly before the door, and a moment later the old bell clanged loudly through the half-empty house.

It resounds with all the doubly loud noises of a half-empty place—with hammering and tacking, clanking buckets, the "Whoas!"

It was a hot July day, and Paris should have been half empty, but the pavements were crowded.

His breathing oxygen gauge showed half empty, so he must have been on the job for around a half hour.