Sentence examples for ended up empty from inspiring English sources

When I tested if coverage in the last-x hours depended on the attention in the last (x-1) hours, I ended up empty handed in both cases.

And because of that I've ended up empty-handed.

Everyone who has ever sat down to negotiate with Mr Mobutu about power-sharing or change has ended up empty-handed.

Almost two-thirds of the 1.9 million people who applied in the six-week first round of Olympic sales ended up empty-handed.

Liverpool's chief executive has previously ended up empty-handed when attempting to buy from Ukraine, having lost out on the likes of Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Yehven Konoplyanka when a deal seemed close in the past.

So when the announcement came this afternoon that there would be no World Cup here, the disappointment bordered on disbelief, as stunned fans wondered how their nation had ended up empty-handed.

But Mr. Birkenfeld, whose exploits landed him on "60 Minutes" and the front pages of newspapers around the world, cut such a high profile that many lawyers worried that the I.R.S. might scare off potential whistle-blowers if he ended up empty-handed, with nothing more to show for his efforts than a criminal record.

He was also named man of the match despite a yellow card and will not forget his Wasps debut in a hurry after an absorbing bonus-point victory against a Connacht side who may wonder how they ended up empty-handed.

The score got so out of hand that both teams ended up emptying their benches as the fourth quarter wound down.

After being turned away in the Netherlands, the ship ended up emptying its cargo into trucks that dumped the waste across Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast.

"With Inhofe's re-framing the question, the Democrats, trying to engineer a gotcha moment, ended up empty-handed," wrote Philip Bump on The Fix, a column of The Washington Post.