Translations for „emptily“ in the English » German Dictionary

emp·ti·ly [ˈem(p)tɪli] ADV

emptily

leer

to look emptily at sb/sth

jdn/etw ausdruckslos ansehen

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to look emptily at sb/sth

jdn/etw ausdruckslos ansehen

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Your peals of nervous laughter echo emptily around the room as you fall silent.

www.nzherald.co.nz

And we see a lift yawning emptily.

www.independent.co.uk

Such doctrine was not emptily pious or self-serving; huge numbers of his subjects believed it too.

www.telegraph.co.uk

He laughs emptily, shaking his head.

www.gigwise.com

The evening could have ended there and been satisfying enough, albeit in that aforementioned, emptily nostalgic kind of way.

consequenceofsound.net

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.

www.telegraph.co.uk

It seems too emptily triumphalist, with a quality of machismo bordering on the arrogant...

blogs.telegraph.co.uk

She then abandons the instrument which caught in the swirling breeze produced by the flier's departure, hummed emptily.

en.wikipedia.org

Surprisingly, the distinctive oscillating guitar riff which should have resonated deeply with the festival crowd seemed to echo emptily around the sparsely occupied hills.

musicfeeds.com.au

Just emptily mouthing it as platitudes, and going through the motions in order to relax themselves.

www.independent.ie