Sentence examples for returning empty-handed from inspiring English sources

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

Of most concern was the men - endurance and sprint - returning empty-handed from a track World's for the first time since Lottery funding began in 1998.

Mr. Vajpayee was quoted in Indian newspapers yesterday as saying that when the recent meeting ended, General Musharraf "didn't want to leave because he was returning empty-handed".

One morning, a tapir appeared in the reeds of the nearest islet, and Laureano scrambled after it with a shotgun, returning empty-handed.

On Sunday night, even as some of the searchers were returning empty-handed from their efforts, Justin Robinson, a 15-year-old Clayton High School football player, clicked the Like button on the growing Find Autumn Pasquale Facebook page.

The wife is very maternal to her young visitor, and she began to realize the inappropriatness of her mission, though the prospect of returning empty-handed to her superiors cast a spell of desperation over the whole experience.

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.