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

I don’t mean to suggest that this approach is emptily imitative, “all style and no substance.”

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2018

After they had gone we laborers looked rather emptily across the newly cleared rails at each other, at ourselves, and not even Brinker thought of the timely remark.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles