How To Use Blank In A Sentence

Behold the mermaid blanket, a fishy update on that hygge groundbreaker, the slanket. Times, Sunday Times
His first impulse was to turn around and walk away, blank her out, pretend he hadn't even seen.
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
There wasn't a blank spot anywhere, beautiful carpets covered most of the floor and there were paintings and animal furs on the walls.
More than a foot of snow blanketed parts of Michigan.

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I record my favourite songs onto blank tapes to play in the car and I normally do them by mood or genre.
A catapult fired point-blank, and flames broke over the roiled water, but it was pointless.
And here ... sign this blank cheque for what you owe.
*shuffle, dig dig* I digs throo teh blankees an finds wun just for yoo. Can I come live wiv u? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The goal was another peg, some 30 feet and almost horizontally leftwards across yet another blank wall.
I think you could get aroundthe police strategy discussed above by Orin Kerr arrest the potential non-consenting guy first with this sort of blanket prohibition. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank.
At the touch of a button one of the blank monitors blipped to life, displaying a scene that was being picked up by a hidden remote camera.
At this time of year, plants are tucked up for the winter under a thick blanket of winter mulch.
And then a kind of bleakness about the present and then just a blank space about the future. Times, Sunday Times
She questioned the authenticity of the contracts the two fighters signed, saying that one alleged he was forced to sign a blank contract.
Once his periodic table had been drawn, these blanks were suddenly obvious. Times, Sunday Times
This regress is signalled not only by increases in mental confusion but by typography less and less coherent, the type straying over the page, and with some pages simply blank.
From the association's secretary each member received a package of more or less gorgeous blanks, printed like a billhead, on handsome paper, properly ruled in columns; a bill-head worded something like this -- Life on the Mississippi
Police say the weapons were seized as it is suspected that they breach the 1982 Firearms Act, which prohibits the selling of readily convertible blank firing weapons.
He told us point - blank that his company was on the verge of bankruptcy.
The video recordings of the interviews showed the suspect sitting at a desk clutching a blue blanket over his head. Times, Sunday Times
Fill the blanks in these Sun headlines. The Sun
My mind went blank with grief and despair.
I bundled Lucy up in a blanket and made her a cup of tea.
Most kids are drawing perfect ovals while others leave it blank.
Rubber blanks exploded through the bush I was crouching behind, but none hit me.
The main work of this thesis is research tire bubble detection algorithm for filling up the blank of this area.
The city is the first thing I see from my bedroom window when I roll up the blinds of a morning, except on those days when it is shrouded in a thick blanket of damp mist.
A further clarification of the mystery man's identity still elicited a blank response.
The town was covered in a thick blanket of fog.
She nodded snuggling deeper into the blankets and stealing their warmth.
He was given only a wooden pallet with a blanket.
(He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good-nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) "This overcoat is as good as a blanket," he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness. THE SPIKE
Haze Blankets Singapore Vivek Prakash/Reuters A combination photo showed Singapore's financial district on a clear day on Sept. 11, top, and shrouded in haze on Thursday, bottom. Indonesia Seeks to Stem Haze
Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
Fish were abundant, to be sure, along that coast, where the invisible fruitfulness of the sea made compensation for the blank barrenness of the land; but they were swift and wary, and had to be caught, one at a time, outwitted and outspeeded in their own element. Kings in Exile
She settled the blanket around her knees.
Across her back I threw a soft light blanket before heaving the massive English saddle across.
While I kept back the dogs, Uncle Denis, kneeling down, pulled out the quills, and then throwing my blanket over the animal, he secured it as we had done the urson. With Axe and Rifle
Ben left the blankets on the back of the sofa while he followed Hoss upstairs to gather his own warm clothes from his bedroom.
He blew on the small cuts for a moment, then burrowed back underneath the blankets to resume his interrupted sleep.
His head was hidden under a blue blanket, but deep sighs were audible. Times, Sunday Times
The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
And was there frostwork about and thick weather and hice, soon calid, soon frozen, cold on warm but moistly dry, and a boatshaped blanket of bruma air-sighs and hellstohns and flammballs and vodashouts and every — thing to please everybody? — Finnegans Wake
The army's Quartermaster Corps, unaccustomed to providing for the needs of a wartime force, had disbursed flimsy, floorless tents; as a result, Grant and the rest of the four - thousand - man force slept in the cold mud, protected from the elements by thin woolen blankets. 'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848'
The patient kneels on the spread (B) prepared for her; this consists of a sheep-skin (S) covered with a cotton blanket (C) and a zarape (Z). Labor Among Primitive Peoples
A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket.
Also bear in mind that probably most shots we take are 200-400 yards which is point blank or near abouts that with any flat shooting rifle. Best caliber for 600+ yard shots
Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
All that remained was that lovely blank undecorated space upstairs which led up to the administrative offices.
The blanket medicalisation of society, however, should be approached with caution. Times, Sunday Times
This looks like a blanket or comforter - fuzzy and warm.
She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
Slip a sheet of blank paper or an entire magazine into the baggie.
Garrisons suggest a more entrenched military encampment, using tents rather than blankets.
It's hard to be "tarred" with a neutral or complimentary label the sole purpose of which is to assign blanket characteristic behavior patterns to the recipient. Gringos and Euros and Canucks, oh boy
Cover with a thick layer of seaweed, and a piece of old canvas, blanket, carpet, or dry leaves, to keep in the steam.
He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling. THE KILL CLAUSE
He tried to push them off, but they had him pinned under the blanket.
There are solar blankets kind of furled up in there. CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007
He told it, stringing it out while the three spread their blankets and collected a pile of firewood for the night. A Plague of Angels
You try and gift something to the nation and meet a blank wall of bureaucratic indifference. Times, Sunday Times
She lay tangled in her blanket, one arm hiding her face.
He was then taken into the defendants' cage on a stretcher, wearing sunglasses and covered by a green blanket. The Sun
They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi's blood pressure.
Maclaren Techno Four Seasons Pushchair Description 1 buggy, 4 seasons, 8 looks: The four seasons buggy is suitable from birth and comes complete with 3 reversible seat liners for spring, summer and autumn, a footmuff for winter, boot, a reversible blanket, raincover and storage bag to coordinate with all 4 seasons. WN.com - Articles related to Trinoma welcomes summer
They drew a blank in their search for the driver.
One mammoth cloud lay half-way across the sky, a big fleecy blanket, dragging its train. DANSVILLE
Cognitive blanks are the sporadic result of careless reading, I knew.
With a blank sheet the court would have taken that approach. Times, Sunday Times
Taking aim again, I pulled the trigger and the blank hit the guard in the chest.
Write your name, address and telephone number in the blank spaces at the top of the page.
Rovers very nearly got themselves back into the game within seconds, when Finn ran on to Gary Twigg's flick-on to head towards goal, but Ryzhikov made a fine reaction save to keep his effort out from point-blank range. Shamrock Rovers 0-3 Rubin Kazan | Europa League Group A match report
She gave him a blank stare.
Kevlar also was used on the Galileo probe to Jupiter, which included a parachute made of Kevlar, and at the International Space Station, where a blanket made of Kevlar was used to wrap its inner walls to protect from micrometeorites.
I imagine that an acupuncture session is fairly relaxing for the pet - the article indicates that the animal isthe center of attention during these exercises – they are petted, nuzzled, spoken to in calming adult-cooing baby language, placed on warm blankets with candle light and soft music, perhaps? Pet Acupunture – Grrrrr! Ruff! « Biodork
Even boys - traditionally reluctant readers - were devouring it under the blankets.
A blanket ban on western reporters makes the getting of hard information almost impossibly difficult.
Mark was still chattering about the movie scene when all the cathode ray screens went blank. BLACKWATER SOUND
With picnic blankets, hampers and candles in safety cups, the visitors began taking up their positions on the grassy knoll.
At evening viewings, comfortable cushions and blankets are placed on the lounge chairs.
This is the kind of blankety coat I want to wrap myself in on misty mornings. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
She was blighted by respiratory illness and memory blanks. Times, Sunday Times
And endpapers are the four blank pages at the beginning and end of a book, included by the bookbinder to give the book additional strength.
The heavy cotton impervious counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the sick person, while the blanket allows them to pass through. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
Don't leave a blank space here - no one's life is perfect.
We're also doing blanket food distributions and that's within the first emergency phase.
We should have had the St John Ambulance brigade giving us tea and thermal blankets.
He ran out carrying a stack of blank papers, a bunch of crayons, pencils, charcoal sticks, a camera and a huge straw hat.
The door was unmarked and completely blank except for a single word written in a dark red script: Wayward.
I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor.
A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket.
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They were good blankets, of most marvellous thickness and warmth, and her pride in them was greatened in that they had been come by so cheaply. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
At 12: 50 PM, hester said ... did you really stay for the whole thing?? quite impressive! btw, our performance of zimmermann's Erde-Wasser-Luft-Töne was prepared with heavy non-stick masking tape and blankets. drury's performance of it in jordan hall used steel putty. glad you enjoyed the iditarod! On the Trail
He shook the blankets vigorously to get rid of the dust.
The crowd gave the serial killer blank stares as he was escorted from the courtroom.
Scrapbooks crammed with yellowed reviews overflow on to sheets the color of daffodils, a salmon satin blanket cover.
Evidence that Woodrow Call harbored no light feeling for Maggie was right before him: Call looked blank and sad, not unlike the way survivors looked after an Indian raid or a shoot-out of some kind. Comanche Moon
As she perched on the blanket and started to unlace her boots, she remembered what the constable had said and leapt to her feet. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
We've had air and soft air pistols, air rifles, blank firers and replica guns surrendered, which is an excellent result.
There were little blankets designed to wrap the baby like a papoose, but I worried that I would wrap the child too tight and suffocate her. Staceyann Chin: Surviving Halloween, Bedrest, and The Baby Registry
The migration staff might be able to fill out any remaining blank fields later, based on the mandatory input or after a call-back.
A blinding coat of white blanketed the thick shrubbery that defined my garden.
Staff at a beauty salon used a fire extinguisher and fire blanket to put out the flames and called an ambulance. Times, Sunday Times
Write your name, address and telephone number in the blank spaces at the top of the page.
And then a kind of bleakness about the present and then just a blank space about the future. Times, Sunday Times
The reception was encased in bulletproof glass, the blankets were riddled with holes and the remote control was moist. Times, Sunday Times
Kennedy: I dialled and hit a mental blank. Times, Sunday Times
Just the type of blank page made to suit a man like him.
He was laying under an army blanket, on a rickety cot, right arm bandaged, and the other pillowing his head.
Some of these low-lying areas, with waterlogged deposits blanketed by alluvium, have provided good evidence for Roman farming.
Every ounce saved was important and they didn't even take blankets or greatcoats and they slept as best they could in rough bamboo shelters with only a groundsheet to keep out the mountain cold.
So we pack a picnic and a blanket in a small rucksack and head off into the hills.
Kennedy, the other newcomer, remains silent, his blank, hooded eyes seeming quietly amused by something.
In July, crews fighting a blaze in a three-acre manure lagoon at a dairy farm in Washington smothered the flames with more of the same - a blanket of wet cow manure.
He was surprised upon learning that he merely had to untuck the bedcovers to get under the blanket.
Cine Blitz International publisher Rajesh Mehra attacked the blanket ban.
Anyone had experience buying walnut gunstock blanks or lumber (any species) from Goby Walnut or Wrights Gunstocks in the Portland, Oregon Area? Anyone had experience buying walnut gunstock blanks or lumber (any species) from Goby Walnut or Wrights Gunstocks in the Portlan
My first step will be to remove the insect killer tubelight setup on each floor, and issue a blanket ban on all insect repellants.
Alan sings with shy intensity, hiding behind the security blanket of his guitar.
Her pieces feature groups of young pale-skinned models, often naked from the waist down and with a blank expression on their faces.
The bill gives sensitive police files a blanket exemption.
But in an hour-long press conference which largely retrod the argument of yesterday's announcement, both men refused point-blank to comment on rumours of a new pact to pass the Labour leadership in return for entry to the euro.
Drawing a blank would be a sickener so ... one winner. Times, Sunday Times
They placed the baskets in a convenient hollow by a large pine and covered them with the blanket.
Anne burnt the crumpled pages in the grate, including the blank pages underneath, all the way down to the first undented sheet. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The army apparently refused point blank to do what was required of them.
a point-blank shot
Yes, the basketweave blanket is beautifully drapey. ahem. Dolly Wants to Play...
Except it looked to me like he was watching something, his own collapsing infrastructure perhaps, his expression shifting between blankness and surprise. Imperfect endings
I sent back the return attached to the four blank pages, plus a letter of complaint. Times, Sunday Times
The photos above show printed-out pages, but this technique is also useful for attaching blank pages for handwritten notes. Archive 2009-05-01
Lorn slowly replaces the sabre and the firelance, and then pulls out the message blank for the Engineers. The Magi'i Of Cyador
They all laid out their bedrolls and blankets in a corner.
He could only stand and watch as all three Genos were blanketed in heavy gun fire.
So as often as I sincerely wish to throw a blanket over my teenage daughter before she goes out, I know I can't do this (although I can cluck, like a churchwoman, "Aren't you going to be cold in that, dear?"). Danielle Crittenden: Islamic Like Me: Is Western Culture More Sexually Oppressive Than The Burka?
Like ‘solution’ or the blank tiles in Scrabble, you can use it anywhere, though it adds no other value.
The beds are made up with proper sheets and blankets instead of duvets. Times, Sunday Times
The ban is a blanket ban covering all marches or all marches of a particular class such as political marches.
Her heavy head rested on her arm, and her face wore a blank expression.
As I sailed through the air my mind went blank. Times, Sunday Times
There was blanket coverage of the royal divorce.
Finally, at theOsaka shi mondai matome site [大阪市問題まとめサイト], one blogger arguesthat the connection between blank zones and so-called assimilation districts [同和地区] (orburakuminareas) is just a new variation on an old theme: Japan: Street View's Missing Streets
This blanket dismissal of evolution ignores important distinctionsthat divide the field into at least two broad areas: microevolution andmacroevolution.
The structure, designed by John B. Jervis, had blank walls, huge central and corner pylons, and a blank cavetto cornice, a concave bracket that lines the edge of many ancient Egyptian temples and facades. 19th-Century Egyptian Revivalism
I wonder if the Pew numbers include the people in the room who gave Morra and I the blankest of blank looks. Waking up to the blogosphere
Gina looked blank; then understanding dawned.
They already had been instructed to avoid Simpson coverage, but Fujisaki expanded his order to a blanket ban on all news.
They already had been instructed to avoid Simpson coverage, but Fujisaki expanded his order to a blanket ban on all news.
Try changing feather pillows, woollen blankets and woollen clothing to cotton or synthetic materials.
On one occasion, the spruiker refused point blank to tell me the name of the company he was representing.
Perhaps you fluffed your lines or found your mind going blank? Times, Sunday Times
The only distinguishing feature was a silver doorknob, blanketed with a thick layer of dust.
I sent back the return attached to the four blank pages, plus a letter of complaint. Times, Sunday Times
Fancier edge stitches could include binding with lycra, blanket stitch, pinking, overcast with the serger, or turning under and stitching.
They cuddled up under the blanket.
So my conclusion is that we blanked due to a combination of the bream being well fed and very alert to danger.
They thought he was a middle aged wet blanket.
She pondered her plan while she stood at the luggage carousel and stared blankly at the conveyor.
His dark-gold hair, damp and draggled, hung into his eyes, which were dilated and sunk into violet pools; his blank beautiful face was grey and sweating, his entire frame racked with shivering.
she stared at him blankly
Mine start when I go blank.
You will also need blank sheets of paper of the same size, markers, and paper for students.
I don't believe that could happen today, one of my students sighed in blank refusal of this simple chain of reasoning.
Vestibule bulkheads were attached inside the body and the end windows were blanked off A Cal-Scale tailgate was added to complete the car.
It had the usual country-schoolhouse form, with a moss-grown roof and blank window spaces, whence both glass and sash had long departed.
My pet peeve for the day is waking up in the middle of the night, curled in a warm hollow under the blankets, relaxed and thinking dozily about blogs and mailing lists… and then the harsh bleep of my alarm ricocheting through the dark.
Aidan woke, blinking up into the gray of predawn, confusion at his whereabouts making him question the heavy oaken beams above his head, the draft from a rattling set of windows, and the dampness in the smelly blankets covering him. Earl of Durkness
Then his father draws back the blankets to reveal two shattered legs, the bones held in place by external fixators. Times, Sunday Times
A wind dead aft, blanketing more than half the canvas, is called a lubber's wind. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
Scoop unwanted blanket weed out of garden ponds. Times, Sunday Times
But this was a demonstration of the contrasting ways in which two strikers can draw a blank. Times, Sunday Times
The suffocating security blanket extends well beyond the convention center.
The picture I see you painting is that all along there has been death and disease and carnivorism, squeezed into a blank spot of silence just prior to Genesis 1: 2. Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy?
As far as minimum requirements go, you will need to take at least one blank video cassette with you.
The artists built the city of Boston on stage, and I wrote a kind of heroic Shakespearean text in blank verse and rhyme (which two characters recited) about the city's history.
Pillow and blanket, in size befitting that missing infant, made that black perambulator all the more confounding.
After looking at me blankly for a few minutes (I was preparing my declaration of Platonic love), she suddenly began crying into her hands. THE DICE MAN
A 0435 Blank Tissue Paper - it can be used for wrapping a tea cake.
I was met by four blank blue eyes and much shrugging. Times, Sunday Times
The Great London Smog blanketed the capital and brought it to a standstill in December 1952.
If the stock does not pay out any dividends, this space will be left blank in the newspaper table.
The scratchy blankets were tucked around her, and Robert was spooned behind her against the wall.
The girl's eyes had a blank look about them.
She looked blank and changed the subject. Times, Sunday Times
Forget that Culkin is blond and blue eyed, and that Blanket is dark and possibly Latino.
Martin recollected his blank-verse tragedy, and sent it instead. Chapter 43
Those troops act as a big security blanket for Seoul and Tokyo, and the last thing China wants is for either of those countries to be untethered from the U.S. security embrace.
The spinach, arugula, tatsoi and mache all appeared like green sentinels standing up to Old Man Winter's blanket of white snow.
You give hugely to the town and the country but when you look for a little back for yourself, you get a blank refusal.
We have all sat there, on rainy days, when empty pages and blank spaces beckon. Times, Sunday Times
There was blanket coverage of the royal divorce.
The prime was followed by a mask comprising a series of 15 ampersands that remained on screen for 500 ms, followed by a 300-ms blank screen.
He was effectively granted a blank cheque to conduct a war without Congressional authorization for up to 90 days.
His facial features can shift in a twitch from the innocent blankness of a choirboy during the sermon to the frantic grimaces of an axe-wielding berserker.
Part of the report was blanked out.
Make a den with a blanket over the furniture. The Sun

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