Similar words: heavy-handed, empty, emptying, empty nester, underhanded, city hall, handed, offhanded. Meaning: adj. 1. having acquired or gained nothing 2. carrying nothing in the hands.
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1. She visited every Sunday and never arrived empty-handed.
2. When the police arrived the burglars fled empty-handed.
3. They always arrive at parties empty-handed.
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4. We can't go to the party empty-handed.
5. Soon, Banjo comes back empty-handed.
6. The robbers fled empty-handed.
7. They came away empty-handed, but one Tucson psychic, Joyce Martin, said she plans to continue searching on her own.
8. Forty minutes later he was still empty-handed and beginning to panic.
9. He came back empty-handed, then set off again with his son.
10. A good haggler knows when to walk away empty-handed.
11. Delegates from the warring sides held a new round of peace talks but went away empty-handed.
12. I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed.
13. If he was a journalist intent on digging up some ancient dirt, he'd come up empty-handed.
14. When my friends visit me I never feel insulted by what they bring, nor if they come empty-handed.
15. Neither resisted, but the man suddenly opened fire before driving off empty-handed.
16. The day will end with a prize draw, but no-one will go home empty-handed.
17. A man so adept at this useless activity that he dueled empty-handed against swordsmen.
18. More often than not he came back to his apartment empty-handed and crestfallen.
19. But Solomon sat tight in his rain barrel, and after the cossacks had left empty-handed, he made his escape.
20. Mandru's agent had been outbid, however, and he'd been reluctant to return home empty-handed.
21. The man who had been walking the aisles approached the counter but was empty-handed.
22. After a great deal of hunting around with flashlights, the plain-clothes policemen were forced to go away empty-handed.
23. She banged his head on the till and slammed the drawer on his hand, before he ran off almost empty-handed.
24. On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.
25. Unusually, the martial art of kali teaches the use of weapons first and empty-handed techniques last.
26. An armed raid on a hospital was bound to cause an international outcry, particularly if we came out empty-handed.
27. I watched as he raced the length of the yard and came back empty-handed.
28. Steve looked crestfallen as he returned from the mailbox empty-handed.
29. Graduates who attend them seem to be becoming increasingly fatalistic that they will go away empty-handed.
30. Hearing police sirens in the distance, the robber was forced to leave the bank empty-handed.
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