How To Use Blotter In A Sentence

  • Blotter made a show of biting her knuckles and growing pale, as she was programmed to do in tense situations.
  • A blotter on the desk, one of those desk diary appointment things?
  • Drago sank into his chair behind the desk after Schrader had gone and tossed his wire-framed glasses on the blotter in front of him. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
  • Her eyes were on the paper; her bare arm lay on the green blotter like a swatch of white satin across a lawn. DANSVILLE
  • Spread out on the blotter were a quantity of envelopes. The Vesuvius Club
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  • Some skimmers work by separating the top layer mechanically; others use a sort of blotter or a suction mechanism.
  • Before another door in the wall to his left, opening onto a broad balcony, was a well-worn desk, covered with a blotter, a neat stack of parchments, inkwells, a small rack of reed pens, a small waterclock, and other paraphernalia.
  • He had been trained to put his deliveries on the blotter rather than the highly polished wood of the desk.
  • Bell pushes were often made as part of a desk set, orgarniture de bureau, which would also contain a blotter, a clock, candlesticks, a pen rest, an inkwell, a stamp box, a glue pot, and a notepad holder.
  • The sawdust gathered on her blotter with ugly subtleness, like dandruff on a collar.
  • Or was there a typo on their police blotter that ended up in making some felon's license plate number the same as mine?
  • He drops the envelope on his desk blotter and concentrates on his partner's tense face.
  • Peopleeating from themass mediaslop troughfilled withthe voyeuristic disaster blaster, tabloid trash, andlocal police blottercan't be held accountable for not hearing about the movement to impeach Cheney AND Bush, because it really isn't allowed past most of the media filters. Corporate Media Blackouts Continue as Iran War Looms and Impeachment Moves Ahead
  • I hesitate to classify this under the Florida GOP Police Blotter given the outcome of the situation, but there's no doubt it would be there but for said outcome*, so here we go. Archive 2007-09-02
  • No wonder you're CEO of a bank, Clifford,' I said, and Clifford stared down at his fascinating blotter. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
  • But I had made the Northfield equivalent of the police blotter.
  • Her hands rest on the desk blotter, folded neatly.
  • It's about the routine of the police blotter, school board debates over the luncheon menu, the fluctuation of stock prices and all the other routine minutiae of life incur complex society.
  • Still smiling, the woman hangs up her phone and taps her desk blotter with her pen.
  • The only fly in the ointment is the project stuff which is so onerous it would ordinarily have had me eating my desk blotter with frustration.
  • I think your drug lingo is off, Julian. blotter and windowpane are two different preparations of acid. Complete the Sentence
  • He never has shown up on the police blotter, nor did he throw temper tantrums during his year in limbo.
  • It is tough to determine what exactly it is that has made him successful in his efforts to stay off the police blotter and on the basketball court.
  • His chair creaked again—now he was leaning back, she knew, getting comfortable, his feet up on the blotter. (7) Plus and Minus
  • Too many athletes step off the football field and onto the police blotter.
  • Ronald clasps his hands together on his desk blotter.
  • ‘Yeah,’ Claire replied as she slipped his card into the desk blotter, ‘she was.’
  • But there are many truly good players who avoid the police blotter, and they're great role models both on and off the playing field.
  • ‘No, I've never been fingerprinted,’ I assured him, as he pulled out what appeared to be an ink pad and blotter.
  • Alex Balk, the editor of Radar.com, wrote today that “pulling a prank on April 1 is a lot like getting blottered on St. Patrick’s Day: if you’re not doing it every day, you’re not really Irish.” Souring on April Fool’s Day - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • But if you ask the average fan how we spent our summer, the police blotter would define it.
  • No wonder you're CEO of a bank, Clifford,' I said, and Clifford stared down at his fascinating blotter. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
  • The lines in the miniblotter were perpendicular to the lines of the fixed probes.
  • When reporters go beyond the police blotter and write longer stories, are they more likely to balance the traditional comments from police with comments from juvenile defendants and outside expert sources?
  • A blotter, a telephone with intercom, a computer to one side. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
  • Guilt is less often seen in terms of hormones and more often in terms of morality than in other series, then, indeed, in the world as the police blotter records it.
  • The sawdust gathered on her blotter with ugly subtleness, like dandruff on a collar.
  • Then he chews it slowly and carefully and incomplete, damping the sound by making sure his teeth do not meet, and Cotter tries to imagine how it tastes, all the paper points and edges washed in saliva, becoming soft and limp and blottered so you can swallow smooth. Underworld
  • Surface water will be absorbed into these ungrazed strips as into a blotter. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everyone stared at the ceiling or doodled on their blotters as Jack outlined his grand plan.
  • He glanced down at the blotter on his desk: there were papers covered with tiny Rris script there.
  • A blotter, as ubiquitous then as a computer is now, sits on his desk, ready for work.
  • He stands up, leaning on his desk blotter, and keeps his voice low as he continues.
  • Her slender, sure hands are clasped together as they rest on her desk blotter.
  • A candle sat on the left corner of the desk, next to which sat a quill pen, a blotter, an inkwell, and various other writing necessities.
  • Take a look at the police blotters and crime reports in the papers.
  • Not one drop of saliva had found its way on to his green blotter. AFTERMATH
  • Then they both laughed before the senator signed the police blotter.
  • Sheer paper face blotters remove oil and leave makeup intact.
  • Then, too, every time we make a landing on an island, part of our strength, like water, soaking into a blotter, is absorbed in the men and materials that must be left there. The Unfinished Task
  • An ingenious murderess decides to soak the blotter on her husband’s desk in hemlock, so he will be gradually poisoned as the hemlock leaches out and into his hands whenever he works late into the night. hemlock/Shakespeare What’s My Name Again?
  • Un Mauvais Quart d'Heure After Another I delicately removed a strand of still-damp waterweed from my sleeve and placed it squarely in the center of the blotter. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • It has been a rough offseason for the NFL, with many players showing up on the police blotters around the country.
  • Norman scoots behind the desk and glances down at the blotter, shuffling a few papers in his fingers.
  • Ryan puts the paperweight down on his desk blotter, moving his chair closer to put less distance between them.
  • But that takes sometimes a more sophisticated and -- pulling those stories together sometimes takes a bigger reporting effort than the blotter, which is an accurate way, but sometimes it's as it happens, we're putting it out and watching it develop. CNN Transcript May 21, 2006
  • He turned over a matt black and white that had been lying on the blotter in front of him, and pushed it towards her so that she got the full impact of the divided face, the kecked nose and slewed eye, the mouth askew showing long, sharp teeth protruding over his lip on the right side, in a kind of snarl. Bottled Spider
  • I love office supplies; post-its, pens, notebooks, notepads, desk blotters, desks, desk chairs, highlighters… they all call out to me in a strange way.
  • He lives a quiet life off the field, stays away from police blotters, night-club fracases, drugs, and other things that other notorious athletes get drawn to like moths to the bug zapper.
  • Get out spot, I cry, as I invoke the gods' help in cleaning my blotter.
  • Almost obscured by the blotter was a tenth envelope, a tell-tale mauve in colour and edged in black. The Vesuvius Club
  • Our nation's business pages bear a close resemblance to the police blotter, and investor confidence is at an all-time low.
  • There was a silence, the Matron, who was a Miss Cress, tapping her fountain pen lightly on the blotter.
  • Hampton built his masterpiece from a very select collection of junk, including old furniture, burned-out light bulbs, jelly jars, carpet cylinders, desk blotters, cardboard, and foil.
  • The blotter on his desk is covered with sketches of the mysterious creatures Jack sees in his nightmares, there are more photos of family and friends, and a couple of magazines lying about.
  • It was also where I was introduced to a variety of drugs, including paper acid, called blotter acid back then. Blue Rage, Black Redemption
  • `No, just the essentials," Wolfe said, riffling through the stack of mail I'd put on his blotter. MURDER IN E MINOR
  • observer" was quoted as saying John Terry was completely blottered and dancing like an "old dad" to Britney Spears at the Whisky Mint club. Kickette Blog
  • He doesn't show up on the police blotter; he isn't at nightclubs when something bad goes down.
  • Her eyes were on the paper; her bare arm lay on the green blotter like a swatch of white satin across a lawn. DANSVILLE
  • It's not usually a case of wheelchair thieves swiping chairs out from under patients, and the heists seldom show up on police blotters.
  • Adele flicks her gaze at the letter opener at the edge of her leather desk blotter.
  • All I know is he has never been considered a problem and didn't show up on the police blotter.
  • She checked, but saw only a few photographs of a passing-out parade, a map, some pens and a blotter.
  • Unfortunately, however, he also found himself on police blotters, when allegations of a violent attack on an off-duty police officer and sexual misconduct arose.
  • Use a coordinating paper to line a desk blotter.

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