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

In very little time the bucket started shaking and rattling emptily with each strike of his tongue.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel