Sentence examples for return empty-handed from inspiring English sources

It's a 2,000km round trip from which Roger cannot afford to return empty-handed.

The pilot had to return empty-handed; not a single assistant would follow him.

And no wonder: if the England captain does leave in the summer, he will return empty-handed.

"I've never failed yet," he chuckled when I told him of the sizeable bets that we would return empty-handed.

He was ready to return empty-handed when his line snagged a pair of the ocean's next-most-prized deadly catch, two stingrays.

Mr. Remes also faced fierce criticism within the governing Peronist party since his return empty-handed from negotiations in Washington over the weekend with the International Monetary Fund.

She returned empty-handed.

Dick returned empty-handed.

The waiter presently returned empty-handed.

Mr Woolsey returned empty-handed.

She went off and then returned empty-handed.