The phrase 'ring empty' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a sound or atmosphere that is hollow, empty, or lacking. For example: "The room was silent, the only sound a faint echo that left the air ringing empty."
"Words ring empty without deeds," the President said.
But his message to Europe was equally clear: Without its help, his promises may ring empty.
This Fourth of July the words "with liberty and justice for all" may seem to ring empty for many of our nation's bravest citizens.
Prayers are always welcome but ring empty when followed by promises to defend gun rights in a nation where guns are worshiped as idols.
But if American negotiators have always been reluctant to make those promises, even if they did this year, their promises would ring empty.
Some moments that appear interesting ring empty to those who were there: At one point, Rihanna's spotted waiting for her luggage at baggage claim, which she did, until a handful of handlers collected tens of her valises and trolleyed behind her.
When Henrik Ibsen's Nora Helmer first took off her wedding ring, emptied her purse and slammed the door, it caused a sensation.
But the reason Rose should be kept far from baseball isn't about gambling or the game's integrity or any other old fashioned phrase that rings empty in a modern world.
The socially-prescribed expectations rang empty with me.
But after massive financial failures and oil spills, it rings empty to me.
Yet earlier this week when U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with Mashable's Andrew Freedman about a 1.5 degree agreement at the UN Foundation's event Earth to Paris, his statements rang empty to me.
