empty promise
Example Sentences
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But the people who worked and ate at the Moscow Pizza Huts still remember the pepperoni and the red-checkered tablecloths and what they represented: In Russia, change wasn’t always an empty promise.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2025
She was looking to the north, in the direction of an empty promise.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
Broadcasting union Bectu said the "commitment to draw a line in the sand must not be an empty promise".
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025
But they pile up one empty promise after another.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2022
Soon afterward he found that it was more than an empty promise, for, having become a Thief, he was himself set free by the other, who had become a Judge.
From Fantastic Fables by Bierce, Ambrose
