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
Onstage, though, “The Collaboration” feels emptily formulaic — less like an insider’s view of its famous subjects’ lives than a kind of biographical tourism that gets into serious gawking in its second half.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
“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
He was silent for a moment, during which time he seemed to be gazing emptily at the area of carpet around my feet.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
