How To Use Vacantly In A Sentence
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Like Querelle, men in tatty soiled uniforms are flexing their muscles, while others stare vacantly into the middle distance.
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Maggie stared vacantly, mouth gaping, like the tiny circles Gina used to draw above the i's in her name.
None of the Above
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It too has the gift of disguise, now appearing as a wild-eyed woman, now as a vacantly smiling man.
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All I could do was to gaze steadily, vacantly at my unknown visitor.
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You see the solitary old gentleman, sitting out on the kerbstone everyday, staring vacantly into nowhere.
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Once in a while, later in the evening, when alcohol seems to have worked some reanimation charm, some of the zombies will start to emulate human beings, leaving only the most inanimate standing vacantly in front of the band.
Modern Bands and Zombies « Colleen Anderson
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Wrapped in their torn blankets, they would sit or lie on the ground, staring vacantly into space, unaware of who or where they were, strangers to their surroundings.
R_urell: The Perils of Indifference
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All I could do was to gaze steadily, vacantly at my unknown visitor.
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Wanless, answered enquiries as to Ingram's behaviour under what Mrs. Percival otiosely called "his bereavement," echoed speculations at to his whereabouts -- played, in short, vacantly an empty part, and kept her mother upon tenterhooks.
Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution
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I finished what I was doing and went to join the jollity, sitting in a corner, smiling vacantly.
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Glassy-eyed voters will nod their heads vacantly.
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In Oban's featureless tea rooms, elderly coach-trippers write cheerful messages on damp postcards or stare vacantly at cars disembarking from the ferries.
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Aiden stared at me vacantly for several seconds before realization dawned on him.
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He stopped at the corner and looked about him vacantly.
Chapter 44
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As Jean's family and friends assemble on the dust-choked incline, the mood has subsided into dejection, and hundreds perch on the walls around the cemetery, staring vacantly out across the hills.
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He got up abruptly, jerking his long legs, and went to the further end of the veranda, where he stood with set features and brows like a red bar, below which staring eyes were fixed vacantly upon the avenue of bunya trees in the long walk of the Botanical Gardens across the river.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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Dyke went down the stairs to the street and proceeded onward aimlessly vacantly at the sidewalk.
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Lee stared at me vacantly like one of those boys in B and Q when you ask them where the matt emulsion is.
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He's pulled to his feet and stands vacantly and unhelpfully behind the coffin as it see-saws up the steps, carried by the royal family, in a confusion of priests and cameramen.
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Children mounted over the dead bodies of their parents to raise themselves to the fountain's brim; parents stared vacantly at the corpses of their children alternately floating and sinking in the water, into which they had fallen unsuccoured and unmourned.
Antonina
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I didn't move, but sat against the mast running my finger along the cut on my foot and looking vacantly at the green-brown wavelets parting before us, the boulders and cedars along the shore and cloud menagerie overhead.
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He's pulled to his feet and stands vacantly and unhelpfully behind the coffin as it seesaws up the steps, carried by the royal family, in a confusion of priests and cameramen.
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I would catch him in his striped pajamas, staring vacantly at the wall, his thinning hair greasy from sleep.
Double or Nothing
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Oh, yes, " returned Carrie, vacantly, trying to arrange this curious proposition in her mind.
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He gazed vacantly while the verdict and sentence were pronounced.
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Maureen sits there staring vacantly across the table, a stray bit of spittle drooling out of the side of her mouth…
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Xiangzi grinned vacantly, not catching his hidden meaning.
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Then there's Dad handing his procrastinator a book on successful college essays and watching the boy vacantly turn it over in his hands.
'Crazy U,' by Andrew Ferguson, about his family's college admissions experience
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I go about vacantly smiling upon people and feeling like a ghost....
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At this point the imagery begins to repeat itself in different iterations, as it will for the rest of the novel: The man is at the station where the woman is now looking at him "vacantly"; the dog appears again, blocking his path; he walks along the street, where "a cyclist is trying to pedal along," the fish in his saddle bag now joined by a loaf of bread on top of it.
Experimental Fiction
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Tanya shrugged vacantly, and changed the subject.
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she was staring vacantly into the room
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About eight or ten of them, squatting on the castaway cart, staring vacantly over the avocado trees and maize fields.
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I stare vacantly at my computer, not really seeing anything.
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All were alike impossible. I was only conscious of gazing fixedly, vacantly on my companion.
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Now that they were together for the first time in a distinctly social fashion, he found himself vacantly, meaninglessly silent, content to walk beside this charming, summery presence, brushed by its delicate draperies, and inhaling its freshness.
Sally Dows
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Adam rested his head on his hand and stared vacantly at the empty table across from them.
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The bossu," repeated the wretched infant vacantly.
In the Quarter
