Use empty-handed in a sentence
Sentences ending with empty-handed
- Throw away your traps, if necessary, and come empty-handed. [5]
- The messengers had not been sent up to Babylon empty-handed. [10]
More example sentences with the word empty-handed in them
- He had been thrust into an unwatched kitchen, the first day of his return; he not only came forth empty-handed, but tried to rouse the housemates. [5]
- With three companions, in midwinter, he made a mining excursion to the much exploited Humboldt region, returning empty-handed after a month or two of hard experience. [5]
- When she's grown, if she should want to leave me, I'll send her, and not empty-handed, back to Illinois where you came from. [13]
- Sellers had returned home cheerful but empty-handed, and the mule business lapsed into other hands. [5]
- After that I became the hunter of the family; but oftener than not I returned tired and empty-handed, and ravenously hungry. [9]
- There was something, at least, that fell in with his mood, a mood of acquiescence in failure, in this closing season of the year, when he stood empty-handed in the harvest-time. [4]
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