emptily
Example Sentences
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Glinda’s shtick had me laughing reflexively but emptily.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
In another a speechless young man, heavily bandaged, gazes emptily into the camera.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2023
“Brown just stood there, staring emptily into chaos,” writes Kent Babb in “Across the River: Life, Death, a nd Football in an American City.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2021
There have been trumpeted interviews and fatuous raves, but also misleading headlines, Twitter diatribes, backlashes to the backlash and a deluge of emptily sassy online retorts aggregating all of the above.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2015
Let me assure you, Mr Stevens, my life does not stretch out emptily before me.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
