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

Roger ceased to be a pig and became a hunter, so that the center of the ring yawned emptily.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding