While pretending to focus on my plate, I surreptitiously glanced up at him as he took one bite, then another, then proceeded to empty his bowl.

NPR: Mussels Made Easy

Before the Singapore show opened, a London collector bought a painting called "The Last Supper, " a colorful interpretation of the iconic scene, which dramatizes world hunger by showcasing an empty white bowl.

FORBES

It was amazing how soon the bowl was empty.

NEWYORKER: Luda and Milena

Empty the crackers into a bowl and crush very finely.

NPR: Memorial Day Means It's Grilling Time!

By the time O's starter Jason Berken uncorked his first pitch to New York leadoff hitter Alex Cora, swaths of empty seats lined the lower bowl down the left field and right field lines (as for the upper level, a few guppies in a sea of green seats).

FORBES: Sports Business

He followed the river upstream through the flooded bowl of the foothills, swollen with April rain, sleeping in empty riverboats while the sun, pale in the blue mist of the river, grew dimmer.

NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife