Sentence examples for I came up empty from inspiring English sources

Again, I came up empty.

"You should have said … " But in that moment, I came up empty.

There were a few times when I came up empty and said so, and many more times when I pretended to be more confident than I really was, because any path is better than none at all.

I mean, I give to the Red Cross anyway, but I wanted more and I came up empty handed.

Mostly I came up empty.

I struggled to think of another place in the world where the elected mayor of a town wouldn't at least try to condemn domestic bombing campaigns, but I came up empty.

As hard as I looked to find emotional devastation, I came up empty-handed.

But, in late May as I checked fares on several discount sites for dates in June, I came up empty-handed.

I looked for two men in love, engaged in their communities and families and making a go of it, but I came up empty-handed.

General Lanza defended the Army investigation, even though it came up empty.

But when I try to fish deeper for the other memories--the memories that are surely there, for what fat child escapes a landslide of teasing from cruel classmates --I classmates --I