Sentence examples for returned empty-handed from inspiring English sources

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.

In more than a third of drug raids officers returned empty-handed.

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.

With just enough change to avoid the shame of returning empty-handed, he bought his two children each an apple.

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