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:

  • Checking the Web and Lexis-Nexis for the people and organizations mentioned in Glass' articles, you do not come up 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 British fled empty-handed.

  • In fact, reporters who have been trying very hard to unearth evidence that the contributions were illegal, or that the Clintons' connection to the Riady clan has had an effect on American foreign policy, have so far 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.


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