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

Onstage, though, “The Collaboration” feels emptily formulaic — less like an insider’s view of its famous subjects’ lives than a kind of biographical tourism that gets into serious gawking in its second half.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022

“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

Paintings of old white men adorned the walls, and here and there an ancient-looking bust of someone with a beard stared emptily from an inlet.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older