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

Many competitors find themselves ahead of tempo and simply wait, vacantly and obediently, for the music to catch up, arms flopping listlessly, eyes staring emptily into space.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2016

The developers built the outer structure quickly and then left it, abandoned and unfinished, its unpaned windows staring emptily out into the Brooklyn skies.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older