Then he put down the phone, leaving her listening to the rain on the empty line.

I don't like seeing all those empty lines as representative of my pathetic attempt at a life.

The gauge read right on the empty line, meaning he had perhaps half an hour to breathe.

I reseated it a couple of times and still got an empty, dead line.

We followed the now empty lines away from the town.

After the last header, there's an empty line followed by the body of the message.

Then he was gone, leaving Will listening to the buzz of the empty line.

No, she couldn't offer the empty, standard line and tell him she was sorry for his loss.

He hung up, and she listened to the empty line.

Then the whine of the empty line reached his ears.