Empty-handed Sentence Examples

In the end I came out empty-handed yet again.

An hour later, he returned to Yully's room empty-handed.

The "Hunting Excuses" shirt includes all the typical reasons for coming home empty-handed that any hunter will appreciate.

If you walk into a card store, you may only find a handful of cards that might express how you feel about the person and you may walk out empty-handed.

Sometimes the entrepreneurs leave empty-handed, while other times the Sharks are so interested in the ideas that a bidding war occurs.

And since they carry bras from size 38A to 58J, there is no way you are going to come away empty-handed.

Most would never show up empty-handed to a wedding, so they do want some guidance about what to get you.

He came in empty-handed.

Just like every other soul collector Gabriel sent out the past week, Harmony had gone on a mission and returned empty-handed.

He'd extended an olive branch and come back empty-handed.

Freely had she spent her blood and her treasure, only to emerge from the five years' contest exhausted and empty-handed.

Hence the companies issuing higher-yielding bonds can and do go bust, sometimes leaving bondholders empty-handed.

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You're in real danger of leaving the scene completely empty-handed!

He carries home fine things from the spoils of Troy, while we who went the same journey return empty-handed.

You must be getting sick and tired of visiting the Western Union agent, only to be sent away empty-handed.

Tonight promised to be like the others; I would go home empty-handed.

You can travel to the ends of the earth but you will come back empty-handed.

The raiders fled empty-handed, leaving the guard lying seriously injured in the street.

The suspects, who had been working for more than an hour to free the machines, were forced to escape empty-handed.

Even possession of a (normally) two-handed weapon such as the spear didn't obviate the necessity of acquiring empty-handed skills.

Wolves fielded nine players with first team experience, but despite rattling the woodwork twice, came away from the game empty handed.

But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers--but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty-handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles.

Because these charts are generally computerized, it can leave you going home empty-handed, and perhaps unsure of exactly what percentile your doctor reported your child as being in.

You search in vain, scour every store you can think of and come up empty-handed.

That's not to say that you won't find one or several treasures, but if you go in knowing that chances are good you'll come away empty-handed, you'll feel less frustrated should that happen.

It is easy to spend hours sorting through pregnancy outfits only to leave empty handed.

If you wait too long to buy your chocolate gift basket, you'll be empty-handed on Christmas morning.

Since you can send the money after giving the card, this is the perfect way to avoid being caught empty-handed and in need of a Christmas gift.

Whether it's the start of the holiday shopping season or you're staring empty-handed at the finish, you can find a wonderful Christmas gift that is sure to please any man in your life.

Kesha may not have been paid for her Flo Rida work, but she didn't walk away empty handed.

Even though I've left twice empty-handed, I'm still a hopeless romantic.

If you come up empty-handed, try waiting a year and trying again.

With a hypocrisy worthy of the diplomacy of "the tyrants," the committee of public safety declared that it could not support an insurrection engineered by aristocrats, and Kosciuszko returned to Leipzig empty-handed.

In the United States, de Tocqueville's voluntary associations still do the job and anyone willing to make her way to a church or food pantry and say she is hungry will not leave empty handed.

If there's no website available, be aware that you won't want to show up to school completely empty handed.

Girl's Tyme got their first shot at the big time on Star Search in the early 90s, but their rap performance failed to wow the crowd, and the group went home empty handed.

Getting a good night's sleep can make all the difference between getting that trophy buck and coming home empty handed.