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Sentence Examples It's funny how the critics can just sit there blankly as it goes by, and then away they go! She opens the door again to the see the blankly smiling Englishman standing under his umbrella. The seven members blinked blankly back at him, all trying to look as if they understood. You could make your own generic electroclash record by talking blankly in a vaguely European accent. We spoke the same language, and he didn't stare blankly when I asked him a question about a topic like libel. The minister grabbed it with both hands, rattled off his order, and then looked across the table at me rather blankly. He watched the sitcom blankly, and she doubted he was actually paying it any attention. Another is to retreat into various shades of nihilism, cynicism or amoralism, gazing blankly at a world of stone. I stood there blankly staring at the spot they had vanished from until a firm hand came down upon my shoulder. 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. He plays the blankly charming hero against her sinister clown with squeaking, Chekhovian shoes. Jolene flashed a look at the gate and saw the guard back there again, staring blankly into space. Instead, I'm just staring blankly at the metal ceiling trying to keep my head empty whilst lying on the mattress. Rolling over to find sweet relief from his side, he stared blankly at the ceiling, a grubby grotto of sepia walls. The equally sheepish assistant fiddled with the mouse and looked blankly at the screen. It was in many ways, an atypical childhood, but he would just look at you blankly if you said that to him. Sporting blue overalls, the creature stared blankly ahead, looking a little miffed. A lot of philosophy is more blankly nonhistorical now than it has ever been. 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. I stared blankly at both officers and stumbled back a few steps, literally reeling with the news. Show More Sentences The Hunter is laughing now and pushes the door open and I stare out at this guy blankly. I looked at her blankly, for I could not even begin to plead with her to comprehend. Ben stared up at the turquoise sky blankly, then, slowly, he shook his head from side to side. She stared blankly ahead and spoke in a voice devoid of her usual devilish mischief. I looked at him blankly and for a moment a look of panic crossed his handsome features. The woman in the robes smiled at him blankly, while the couple only greeted him with a somber glower. In Act Two, the police chief inhabits a blankly bureaucratic hall hung with yellowing maps. They were so blankly, stylelessly sensible that they might have been orthopedic appliances. The lead characters' brisk professionalism makes them seem as blankly anonymous as the collection of stereotypes surrounding them. She was absently chewing her bottom lip and her eyes stared blankly into space. He barely talks to anybody but he can often be seen standing alone in the day room, staring blankly or cackling and muttering to himself. They gave tips to add some beautiful decor to the blankly decorated master bedroom. Each act of violence plays against a subtle though constantly palpable sense of a blankly indifferent world. Sitting at his desk, staring blankly at the teacher, he thought of the night before. He testifies blankly that he did not design the homes, and that he objected to the changes made to them. The strongest, frankly dictatorial authority figure I have known would look at me blankly, unable to make even simple decisions. And suddenly, he was a stranger, a man who looked at me blankly from his hospital bed, no flicker of recognition. Kazza stared at me blankly in reply, knowing I was putting on an act. 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. Strong, young, crisply uniformed, he or she would shake, sigh, stare blankly, or cry, recounting variations of this statement. Show More Sentences Who needs human affection when you can spend countless hours downloading apps and staring blankly at a glossy screen? I stared blankly at the PC screen, waiting for it to light up. Dylan just stares blankly into the camera with a thin smile on his face. 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. If you were like most people, you'd nod blankly and move to another seat. As I kept looking blankly into space, I heard the wind howling outside. He said the owner of the gym blankly refused to pay the rest. He blankly refuses to believe that Hawkeye has betrayed them. The dancers come across like a gang of blankly naughty overgrown children. So instead I am alternating between gazing uselessly out of the window and staring blankly at this screen trying to string a few sentences together! Others simply sit quietly under a large shady tree staring blankly into space as half-pints of liquor are passed from mouth to mouth in brown paper bags. It's the most immediate and vibrant release he's made yet, but it'd be wrong to blankly call it a triumph. When he's not blankly canoodling with his new bride, he's timidly asking anyone within earshot if they're mad at him. It challenges the listener, one minute cutting you blankly dead in your tracks, the next minute swooning you with a roughly cut appeal. The deformities of his body are magnified by his motley, and his glassy eye stares all the more blankly for the surrounding grease paint. Halle rested against the cold steel, refreshing from the muggy outdoor weather, and looked at him blankly. The wounded are lying on the floors and on beds, their unseeing eyes staring blankly ahead. He mumbled some obscenities and he closed his eyes painfully recalling the gorgeous Nile blue eyes looking blankly up at him, expressionless. He continued to stare blankly at the sheet of paper until Loflen brought him out of his daze. Others stare blankly into the distance with the composure of condemned men contemplating their last plate of pommes frites and steak au poivre. Show More Sentences 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. She pondered her plan while she stood at the luggage carousel and stared blankly at the conveyor. 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. She looked at him blankly until her god sister pinched her arm. 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. Cupping my hands of the cool liquid, I doused my face in it, staring up at my wet faced reflection in the mirror blankly. The Queen looked at him blankly, smiled and shrugged her shoulders politely as she turned and moved on. 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. He straightens and stands oddly for a moment, staring blankly at the man crossing the underground parking lot twenty paces away. She hung up and I stared at my phone blankly for a second before dropping it on my bed. His heart began to pound loudly in his ears as the woman perused his features blankly. Tan stared blankly for a moment, realization slowly dawning upon his weary mind. After receiving the news, he found her sitting on her bed, staring blankly at the wall. In their very variousness, these styles remind us that readers are not confronted blankly by texts that accede to their interpretive powers. He stares at us blankly, then pulls down his pants and begins peeing. Examples from Classical Literature He sat down on the edge of the balcony and stared out blankly. After repeated shakings I opened my eyes and stared at him blankly, but I said nothing. The scaly hairless head beneath the centaurian's white globe device bore a face that was blankly hideous. The geneticist, Piccione, drew symbols on a scratch pad and stared blankly at the wall. If I told my schoolmates that Lena Lingard's grandfather was a clergyman, and much respected in Norway, they looked at me blankly. He looked at her blankly, and felt himself Methuselah in his thirty-fourth year. Four round, blankly surprised eyes were fixed, he knew, unblinkingly on him. In fact, when a copy of Far Cry landed on my desk, all I could do was stare blankly and wonder how I hadn't heard of it earlier. She stared at me as blankly as if she had not been prophesying my doom a little while ago. He put away his stethoscope and smiled at Doggie, who regarded him blankly as the pronouncer of a doom. The bystanders looked at one another blankly, and at last the concentrated gaze fell upon the pooh-bah of the town. Her eyes, dark with bewilderment, sought his blankly like those of a somnambulist. They were slow moving and stared as blankly at him as at the pictures on the wall. The stowaway looked at him blankly, and he repeated his orders. She stared blankly up at the ceiling, her forlornness as beautifully terrifying as her smile had been uplifting. I crouched in the bottom of the dingey, stunned, and staring blankly at the vacant, oily sea. Beardsley looked at him blankly, and Pederson gave a snort and a gesture. Her children, surveying her blankly, found speech difficult. Dumaresque looked from one to the other blankly and then laughed. Mr. Ellery gazed blankly at her through the rain-streaked dark. Show More Sentences At that she cast down flint and firestone and stared blankly. The short, fat cyclist stared blankly for a moment, then with a helpful cry began to scrabble in the road-grit. At the third time he slowly raises his head and stares blankly at you. In half a minute Harvey heard deep snores in the cabin, and he was staring blankly at Dan and Penn. Her great dark eyes wander blankly over the fields like the eyes of one who is desolate, homeless, unloved, not the promised bride of a brave tender man. Find more words! 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