Examples of 'empty chair' in a sentence

Meaning of "empty chair"

This phrase is often used metaphorically to describe a seat that is unoccupied, representing someone who is absent or missing
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  • A chair which is used to personify the client's object of conflict
  • A podium or chair left empty to highlight the absence of someone from a debate.
  • A position held by someone who is absent or otherwise ineffectual.
  • To draw attention to (a person who is absent from a debate) by providing an empty podium or chair which they would have occupied.

How to use "empty chair" in a sentence

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An empty chair next to her makes no difference.
Almost put an empty chair at the table.
I feel a little silly talking to an empty chair.
The empty chair calls out to you.
We have some footage of the empty chair.
I stared at empty chair for two hours.
Which we set with one empty chair.
The empty chair never takes a card.
Why is there an empty chair by the bed.
The empty chair represents the customer.
Acknowledge the empty chair and move it.
Where there was at least one empty chair.
This empty chair is waiting for you.
The prize was placed on his empty chair.
He pointed to an empty chair near the door.

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A boy looks at me and shows me an empty chair.
The empty chair will always be there.
She goes on to show the empty chair again.
That empty chair is sadder than his grave.
Do not worry about the empty chair.
I spotted an empty chair near the door.
I will pray for the empty chair.
There is an empty chair right there.
The police find only an empty chair.
There is an empty chair in our midst.
You tried to overlook that empty chair.
My empty chair is getting huge ratings.
He sits next to the new empty chair.
There is an empty chair if you feel like sitting in.
Then there is gonna be a camera pointed at an empty chair.
I can arrange to have an empty chair available at my table.
An empty chair with other girls.
It will remain so until empty chair is suitably occupied.
The empty chair of the forum said it all.
Amazon famously sits an empty chair in every meeting.
This empty chair seems appropriate.
We do expect the occasional empty chair.
I see an empty chair by the fireplace.
And now there is an empty chair.
Place an empty chair in front of your youth group.
Looks like you got yourself an empty chair.
I glanced at the empty chair next to me.
And right beside her there is an empty chair.
There is an empty chair in the room.
I spent a delightful evening conversing with an empty chair.
I indicated the empty chair in front of me.
Charlie hightailed me into a meeting with an empty chair.
I guess there is not an empty chair in the house.
Where there was a companion there is now an empty chair.
Her empty chair is next to mine in the dining room.

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