The artificial smoke had become an unnecessary factor by the time Bolan's chestpack gaped empty and limp.

The henhouse by the barn gaped empty and silent.

But it gaped open and empty.

In her dressing room the closets gaped open and empty.

Rooms gaped empty on the next landing, their doors gone for firewood, paper stripped and plaster crumbling away from the lath walls.

But outside the cameras' frame, seats gape empty in the bleachers, even at the climactic moments.

The window apertures gaped empty and the roof had fallen in.

The windows gaped black and empty, the glass shattered, the turquoise trim burned or darkened with soot.

Some had been patched with cardboard and ply- wood; others still gaped empty.

She saw that long stretches of the shelves gaped empty.