came back empty-handed|come back empty handed in English
eturned with nothing, returned with no results
Use "came back empty-handed|come back empty handed" in a sentence
1. 12 They always arrive at parties empty-handed.
2. At least you won't go home empty-handed.
3. and added, "He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, 'Don't go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.'"
4. And about my third wish of having my hands dangling out of the coffin, I wish people to know that I came empty handed into this world and empty handed I go out of this world.
5. 27 If he was a journalist intent on digging up some ancient dirt, he'd come up empty-handed.
6. I would usually come down from these amphetamine highs with a sense of folly, exhausted and empty-handed.
7. 3 But they took him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
8. He handed the dipper back to Nikol.
9. The management handed back his few possessions.
10. Your plasma does not come back from that delivery job “empty” either.
11. Sheepishly he handed her back the money.
12. He was handed back his identity card.
13. Charles abjectly declared "all my birds have flown", and was forced to retire, empty-handed.
14. They took the sketch back to the coffee shop, the restaurant, came up empty.
15. 8 The management handed back his few possessions.
16. The ticket was handed back to the passenger.
17. I'll bring this back when it's empty.
18. But return to me again empty-handed, and I will bathe the starways in your blood.
19. He looked through the article and handed it back.
20. Life in this present system is too short to waste on endeavors that leave us empty-handed.
21. Trio Lady Antebellum were given five awards while Taylor Swift went home empty-handed, despite five nominations.
22. 14 He looked through the article and handed it back.
23. It's his back-handed way of getting retribution against Earth.
24. Jones handed off the full-back and caught the ball.
25. There were empty arched pigeonholes at the back, fretted and carved, and two empty little drawers.