adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hearing police sirens in the distance, the robber was forced to leave the bank empty-handed .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a great deal of hunting around with flashlights, the plain-clothes policemen were forced to go away empty-handed .
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Forty minutes later he was still empty-handed and beginning to panic.
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Mandru's agent had been outbid, however, and he'd been reluctant to return home empty-handed .
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More often than not he came back to his apartment empty-handed and crestfallen.
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She banged his head on the till and slammed the drawer on his hand, before he ran off almost empty-handed .
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The day will end with a prize draw, but no-one will go home empty-handed .
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Unusually, the martial art of kali teaches the use of weapons first and empty-handed techniques last.