2. to be loud, noisy, or swaggering; utter loud, empty menaces or protests: He blusters about revenge but does nothing.
However, one source close to Geoghegan told the FT that the HSBC chief may have uttered an empty threat.
[7b] is the sentence DRS which corresponds to [7a], and assuming for convenience that this sentence is uttered in an empty context, it is also the initial DRS of the discourse.
Back and forth, servers protecting platters of pasta or empty glasses utter soft, "Pardon me's," hoping you will notice them.
The prophet laments that instead of nurturing our covenant with God and each other with Godly love, those who sow division and hatred in religious community "utter mere words" and "empty oaths," sowing "judgment" that "springs up like poisonous weeds" instead of bearing the fruits of faith (Hosea 10 4).
Until we begin demilitarizing our relationship with the world, such words uttered by presidents are as empty as the words Dylann Roof uttered in prayer at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night.
If parishioners thought they were required to believe every word their pastors uttered, I suspect the churches would empty.
Things along that line — tropes uttered by most companies, but mostly empty because their product doesn't have even that superficial difference from the rest.
"The No campaign's empty talk of more powers smacks of utter panic and desperation as they lose their lead in the polls," said Blair Jenkins, chief executive of Yes Scotland.
Yes Scotland Chief Executive Blair Jenkins said: "The No campaign's empty talk of more powers smacks of utter panic and desperation as they lose their lead in the polls.
