Sentence examples for gave empty from inspiring English sources

Someone like Clinton's errant triangulation guru Dick Morris, or the Republican Ed Rollins (the man who wrote that his client Michael Huffington was 'such a complete cypher he gave empty suits a bad name').

Why believe in someone when they give empty promises?

The passengers were given empty JetBlue duffel bags: their luggage.

One entry calls for the chimps to be given empty feed bags to rip up and play with.

Earlier this week, Mr. Levy directed superintendents to give empty seats to students who are borderline academically and were shut out of the enrichment program.

But, Krauss admits, particles can emerge from empty space because empty space, despite its name, does contain virtual fields that fluctuate and can give empty space properties even in the absence of particles.

There are particular anxieties about the massive consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks, such as colas, lemonades and sports drinks, which give "empty calories", devoid of the nutrients found in some other foods.

Later in the century, liturgical music again became less extravagant in the wake of the Council of Trent (1545 63), which ordered that masses be sung "clearly and at the right speed" and that singing "be constituted not to give empty pleasure to the ear, but in such a way that the words may be clearly understood by all".

As a control, another group of females were given empty implants.

Mr Mackay said introducing a rates discount for companies taking on empty premises would "give empty properties a fresh start".

Said another way, propensity accounts are accused of giving empty accounts of probability, à la Molière's 'dormative virtue' (Sober 2000, 64).