empty promise
Example Sentences
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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
Oregon’s federal public defender, Fidel Cassino-DuCloux, said Friday’s decision “breathes life into the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, which have been an empty promise for too many presumptively innocent Oregonians charged with crimes.”
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024
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
