Heavy wagons moved there, going to the dock laden, returning empty.

The folding doors remain shut, and the drawer is returned empty.

But at that moment the mug left the table, rose, tilted in the air, and then returned empty to its place.

Pendergast passed the bottle to another, and it went around the circle, returning empty.

Discouraged by an anticipated 90-minute wait, he returns empty to Manhattan.

The train, he believed, was returning empty to gather more soldiers.

The driver was coming up from London and returning empty.

He had been around long enough to spot the signs, especially when a platter that went out with potatoes returned empty.

As a result of this, lorries too often return largely empty.

People say they remember seeing buses taking Kurds away from there and returning empty.