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
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
They had been waiting to see if it was more than an empty promise and after the arrival of the first aid convoy in months on Friday, it seems as though things could be changing.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2022
Everything is obscured in idle talk or deferred by empty promise, and the authorities appear to be continuing a policy which gives to the Boers some justification of their hopes of success.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus
