Examples of 'come up empty-handed' in a sentence
Meaning of "come up empty-handed"
Come up empty-handed: This phrase indicates that someone did not achieve the desired outcome or find what they were looking for, resulting in a lack of success
How to use "come up empty-handed" in a sentence
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come up empty-handed
Police investigate but come up empty-handed.
And come up empty-handed.
I can only conclude you have come up empty-handed.
And come up empty-handed When did I let you down?
And again and again you would come up empty-handed.
More than half a century of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has so far come up empty-handed.
You will not come up empty-handed.
We are searching the donor networks now but so far we have come up empty-handed.
I can not come up empty-handed.
The feds who were looking for Hoffa might have come up empty-handed.
In case they come up empty-handed.
Carol Lockwood will not let me live it down if I come up empty-handed.
If we raid Kenyon's compound and come up empty-handed-- You will not come up empty-handed.
You live and you learn I keep reaching out And come up empty-handed.
If we raid kenyon's compound and come up empty-handed… You will not come up empty-handed.
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Help me out . Carol Lockwood will not let me live it down if I come up empty-handed.
But I did not come up empty-handed.
But SEARCH investigators reported last summer that they, too, had come up empty-handed.
So far, they have come up empty-handed.
Just when you think you have got a lead, you come up empty-handed.
I keep reaching out And come up empty-handed.
What do you hear from the State Department? So far, they have come up empty-handed.
If he 's in the mix and we come up empty-handed again.
You thought I would dig and dig and come up empty-handed.
As of this moment, we have come up empty-handed.
If we raid kenyon 's compound and come up empty-handed.
And it's fun for me to see you come up empty-handed.
Matt … let us say you poke this guy and come up empty-handed.
Well, that does not surprise me, but I did not come up empty-handed.
I'm afraid that we have come up empty-handed.
However, even now, their search had come up empty-handed.
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I am not returning empty-handed this time
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