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Example sentences for: empty-handed

How can you use “empty-handed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The British fled empty-handed.
Checking the Web and Lexis-Nexis for the people and organizations mentioned in Glass' articles, you do not come up empty-handed.
It was a pretty dismaying experience, straight out of Les Misérables : the tattered crowd, the forest of groping hands, the healthy-looking young guys who conned their way to seconds or thirds while the quiet or confused went home empty-handed.
He'd begin a lecture showing two photographs: one of a white man holding a knife; the other of a black man empty-handed.
The editorial added that "if the Israeli delegation returns from America empty-handed, a lot of explaining will have to be done."