empty suit
Example Sentences
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Jessie saying "night night" and giving a salute to an empty suit of armour on her way out of the castle one evening was perhaps the epitome of her brilliant eccentricity.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026
He's an empty suit of plastic emotions bound in hubris and anger.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024
Until Augusta National faces that responsibility, its fabled green jacket is just another empty suit.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2021
Mr. Ossoff, meanwhile, is presenting a clean-cut look, offering himself up as a policy-wise technocrat and pushing back against attempts to cast him as an empty suit.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
He’s a scarecrow, an empty suit of straw.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
