empty promise
Example Sentences
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But the people who worked and ate at the Moscow Pizza Huts still remember the pepperoni and the red-checkered tablecloths and what they represented: In Russia, change wasn’t always an empty promise.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2025
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
I was as closely, even more closely, guarded than ever; and I found, when too late, that I had bartered myself, soul and body, for an empty promise.
From The Midnight Queen by Fleming, May Agnes
