| 1 | Science helps make sense of the empty-nest syndrome | |
| 2 | Now these parents are living alone without children in their empty nests. They have become empty nesters. | |
| 3 | In 2006 he spotted an ad in the local paper, offering to introduce empty-nesters to adult women willing to be "adopted." | |
| 4 | You've just dropped the last of your brood off at the dorm; now it is time to face your empty nest. | |
| 5 | She and her husband, Jeff, 56, a heavy-equipment operator, finally had an empty nest. |