How To Use Blankly In A Sentence
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She pondered her plan while she stood at the luggage carousel and stared blankly at the conveyor.
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she stared at him blankly
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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
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There was a sharp, hot, pain in his palm and Eden jumped back and blankly realized that he'd held the pan's handle wrong and burned himself.
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His heart began to pound loudly in his ears as the woman perused his features blankly.
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It's funny how the critics can just sit there blankly as it goes by, and then away they go!
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Melistar rides a fuzzed bassline similar to Thomas Heckmann's ‘Amphetamine’ and blankly mimics Miss Kittin's vacant delivery.
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Robin Denselow JoJo Marvin's Room Can't Do Better A killer opening line – "I've been up three days: Adderall and Red Bull" – then blankly intoned relationship fallout through a self-medicated fug, bitterness and contempt framed by drugs and booze.
F&M playlist
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Cue audio: sounds of crickets chirping while the girls stare blankly at the camera and at each other.
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She opens the door again to the see the blankly smiling Englishman standing under his umbrella.
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He straightens and stands oddly for a moment, staring blankly at the man crossing the underground parking lot twenty paces away.
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She stared blankly at the brick wall in front of her.
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Say your two-year-old is staring blankly into space and absently running his fingers along a toy car.
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Kazza stared at me blankly in reply, knowing I was putting on an act.
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She looked at me blankly, with the kind of benign smile that suggested I might have imagined it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forby lay awake but staring blankly at the ceiling.
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He channel surfed aimlessly as I stared blankly at the TV.
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It challenges the listener, one minute cutting you blankly dead in your tracks, the next minute swooning you with a roughly cut appeal.
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The chinchilla stared back at the heron, blankly, its two front legs held delicately poised in the air.
BEHINDLINGS
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Mr. Campion repeated the name blankly but as recollection came to him his eyes widened.
More Work for the Undertaker
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Rolling over to find sweet relief from his side, he stared blankly at the ceiling, a grubby grotto of sepia walls.
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He said the owner of the gym blankly refused to pay the rest.
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He plays the blankly charming hero against her sinister clown with squeaking, Chekhovian shoes.
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Seated on a chair against the window, with her arm on the windowsill she was looking blankly at the flowing river, swift with the backward-rushing tide, struggling to see still the sweet face in its unreproaching sadness, that seemed now from moment to moment to sink away and be hidden behind a form that thrust itself between, and made darkness.
IV. Maggie and Lucy. Book VII—The Final Rescue
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The lead characters' brisk professionalism makes them seem as blankly anonymous as the collection of stereotypes surrounding them.
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The equally sheepish assistant fiddled with the mouse and looked blankly at the screen.
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Ovide! "she called brokenly, staring blankly around the room.
A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories
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I love that boy dearly, but when he's not-entirely-sober, he tends to spend large amounts of time staring at me somewhat blankly, which is really unnerving when I'm trying to concentrate on something else, particularly if it's something like writing, where I have to use a different portion of my brain than I do for photoshopping, or reading something, as far as I can tell.
Jaxraven Diary Entry
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As I kept looking blankly into space, I heard the wind howling outside.
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Instead, I'm just staring blankly at the metal ceiling trying to keep my head empty whilst lying on the mattress.
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He continued to stare blankly at the sheet of paper until Loflen brought him out of his daze.
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Rational Review
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At the city's glitziest intersections, the billboards loom blankly over pedestrians.
Times, Sunday Times
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I stood there blankly staring at the spot they had vanished from until a firm hand came down upon my shoulder.
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The people around me have started losing it, mentally and physically, some with hands over ears, heads shaking blankly at the madness of it all.
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Dylan just stares blankly into the camera with a thin smile on his face.
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Another is to retreat into various shades of nihilism, cynicism or amoralism, gazing blankly at a world of stone.
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She was absently chewing her bottom lip and her eyes stared blankly into space.
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For a long time she stared blankly at the logoff display.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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Most of them will stare blankly at you and say, "I dunno."
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She hung up and I stared at my phone blankly for a second before dropping it on my bed.
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"My knees have gone numb," Emmy thought, blankly astonished.
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A painted stone pathway surrounds that part of the stage, and there are even a couple of patches of grass to suggest the garden, but the centerpiece of the set, which stretches from the courtyard up onto the office dais, is what looks like a mosaic floor such as you might find in a very old church, with the impassive visage of a saint of some kind, face partially eaten away by missing tiles, staring blankly up at heaven.
My review of Globe Theatre’s production of Doubt, A Parable
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He watched the sitcom blankly, and she doubted he was actually paying it any attention.
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Once there, things go from lousy to worse as Emily starts staring blankly into the surrounding woods and palling around with a sinister invisible friend called Charlie.
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They gave tips to add some beautiful decor to the blankly decorated master bedroom.
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Afterwards I went into town, ostensibly to buy an interdental toothbrush, but in reality, to walk around blankly wondering what I should be doing to prepare for my new job.
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She stared blankly into space, not knowing what to say next.
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Forby lay awake but staring blankly at the ceiling.
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It's the most immediate and vibrant release he's made yet, but it'd be wrong to blankly call it a triumph.
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As harrowing as these scenes may be, they fail to excite the same level of discomfort as the taciturn Brady who glares blankly into the audience.
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She stared blankly at the brick wall in front of her.
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Cupping my hands of the cool liquid, I doused my face in it, staring up at my wet faced reflection in the mirror blankly.
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The adored child is gone, replaced by a hostile stranger who will only grunt, slam doors and stare blankly at the TV.
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Kemp was sure they had, and had come up against Ruddock's blankly negative, yet interlocutory style - `I dunno, do I?
A WORM OF DOUBT
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He looked up blankly, his mouth opening and closing like a particularly glaikit goldfish.
Boiling a Frog
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I stared blankly at both officers and stumbled back a few steps, literally reeling with the news.
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Gothic, Tudor, or blankly contemporary, it is still a shallow, smooth, plastic frame that can jar with the solid character of brick, wood, or stone.
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He probably has in mind Spinoza's blankly chilling proposition that "He who loves God cannot endeavor that God love him in return."
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It was a face that was interesting rather than classically handsome, she thought, staring blankly at him.
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‘I know what they took… ‘He said disconnectedly, staring blankly off into nowhere, ‘I know what they took from me.’
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Seeming a lonely remnant of his dying breed, Brown's sloe-eyed, densely painted Buffalo in Golden Gate Park stands gazing blankly at the viewer beneath a solitary windblown pine.
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They were so blankly, stylelessly sensible that they might have been orthopedic appliances.
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You could make your own generic electroclash record by talking blankly in a vaguely European accent.
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I stared blankly at the PC screen, waiting for it to light up.
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I opened the door and stared blankly at Bryce, holding a bouquet of long-stemmed red roses.
Recipe for Love
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I stared blankly at the paper in front of me.
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Jolene flashed a look at the gate and saw the guard back there again, staring blankly into space.
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When he's not blankly canoodling with his new bride, he's timidly asking anyone within earshot if they're mad at him.
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After receiving the news, he found her sitting on her bed, staring blankly at the wall.
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In Act Two, the police chief inhabits a blankly bureaucratic hall hung with yellowing maps.
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The minister grabbed it with both hands, rattled off his order, and then looked across the table at me rather blankly.
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The dancers come across like a gang of blankly naughty overgrown children.
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I stared blankly at the paper in front of me.
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The wounded are lying on the floors and on beds, their unseeing eyes staring blankly ahead.
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Most of them walked with downcast eyes or staring blankly straight in front of them.
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They were dressed and starring blankly around the room at the other girls who were obviously forcing themselves out of bed and into their tattered rags.
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It was in many ways, an atypical childhood, but he would just look at you blankly if you said that to him.
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I then asked for jook or congee - rice porridge - and they stared blankly.
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A lot of philosophy is more blankly nonhistorical now than it has ever been.
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She stared blankly ahead and spoke in a voice devoid of her usual devilish mischief.
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He had just poked up the fire and was staring blankly at the flames when someone burst in.
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Each act of violence plays against a subtle though constantly palpable sense of a blankly indifferent world.
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As Patrick stares blankly at the rabbi, Rebecca's dad gets up and explains in his polished and pukka, but perceptibly unEnglish accent:
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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I looked at her blankly, for I could not even begin to plead with her to comprehend.
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She poured some into a bowl and hunched at the kitchen island, blankly spooning the cereal into her mouth.
Choker
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The hallmarks of much postmodernism are there, though it's more postmodern filmmaking than literature: a kind of blankly ironic (so self-conscious it's self-neutering) use of pop-culture and low-brow culture; amoral violence; a superficial identity-politics (Dave's embraced as a kind of fanboy or geek-chic vigilante, while in the movie Hit-Girl's Kill Bill, faux-feminist, grrl power gets played up); an almost irreverent, self-conscious take on old genres.
Vue Weekly
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The wounded are lying on the floors and on beds, their unseeing eyes staring blankly ahead.
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She was absently chewing her bottom lip and her eyes stared blankly into space.
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The woman in the robes smiled at him blankly, while the couple only greeted him with a somber glower.
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The desire in his eyes cracked into a thousand pieces like the shards of the Portal mirror at Renwick’s, and for a moment his expression was blankly astonished.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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She looked at him blankly until her god sister pinched her arm.
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After he had gone, she stared blankly at the stack of boxes he had left.
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He blankly refuses to believe that Hawkeye has betrayed them.
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He testifies blankly that he did not design the homes, and that he objected to the changes made to them.
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She stared blankly at the brick wall in front of her.
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Tan stared blankly for a moment, realization slowly dawning upon his weary mind.
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I looked in her face for some response, but she just stared at me blankly.
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Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling.
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He looked around the room blankly, an expression of befuddlement on his face.
Among the Ghosts
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There was no clarity of thought, only blame, anger and bitterness; punch-drunk, the regime drifted blankly towards its end.
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Why, he looked at me kind of blankly, and I swear he acted as though he had almost forgotten it already.
The Treasure-Train
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The deformities of his body are magnified by his motley, and his glassy eye stares all the more blankly for the surrounding grease paint.
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Nico paced and pondered, stroking his chin gazing blankly at the floor in front of his rhythmic footsteps.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum
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The swans who don't conform, who throw punches; the uber-lipsticked prince who blankly gestures "huh?" when Swan Queen Odette unspools a sequence of nose-in-the-air fingerplay and arm-waving that approximates a 19th-century mime sequence carried out with 21st-century flimsiness.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Divas infuse humor, character in dances
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We stood and stared blankly at it in mute amazement.
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Katherine lay on the bed which had become hers and gazed blankly at the ceiling.
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Halle rested against the cold steel, refreshing from the muggy outdoor weather, and looked at him blankly.
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Listening to radio via television is a curious experience as you stare blankly at an imageless blue screen while your ears do all the work.
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If you were like most people, you'd nod blankly and move to another seat.
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I looked at him blankly and for a moment a look of panic crossed his handsome features.
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Sitting at his desk, staring blankly at the teacher, he thought of the night before.
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Without a word he pivoted and stomped back into the cabin, leaving Shelby and Calhoun staring blankly at one another.
Stone and Anvil
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The Hunter is laughing now and pushes the door open and I stare out at this guy blankly.
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Sporting blue overalls, the creature stared blankly ahead, looking a little miffed.
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She looked at me blankly, with the kind of benign smile that suggested I might have imagined it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The seven members blinked blankly back at him, all trying to look as if they understood.
