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How to use vacantly in a sentence

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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.
Adam rested his head on his hand and stared vacantly at the empty table across from them.
Aiden stared at me vacantly for several seconds before realization dawned on him.
I finished what I was doing and went to join the jollity, sitting in a corner, smiling vacantly.
You see the solitary old Indian gentleman, sitting out on the kerbstone everyday, staring vacantly into nowhere, thinking of India no doubt.
It too has the gift of disguise, now appearing as a wild-eyed woman, now as a vacantly smiling man.
About eight or ten of them, squatting on the castaway cart, staring vacantly over the avocado trees and maize fields.
In Oban's featureless tea rooms, elderly coach-trippers write cheerful messages on damp postcards or stare vacantly at cars disembarking from the ferries.
I stare vacantly at my computer, not really seeing anything.
It is easy enough to talk of a person being as proud as a peacock, but surely a pig is more likely to improve his mind by studying such a living gem than by gazing vacantly at a puddle.
Then, all he does is stare vacantly at the ceiling from the marital bed or lie comatose on a lilo or a couch.
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.
For a moment, the man stared vacantly up at the night sky.
Staring vacantly at the motionless engine of our 70cc, three-wheeled auto-rickshaw as mopeds whizzed past and water buffalo sauntered by, it quickly dawned on us that we knew absolutely nothing about mechanics.
Steve Rababy and Mr. Jansen averted their eyes, staring vacantly at different walls, as if trying to keep the separate lines of vision from tangling.
After some time his eyes opened and he looked vacantly about him.
Instead, they'll be shaking hands with islanders and smiling, vacantly.
In the background of the shot, one zombie-ish blonde model stares vacantly into space, while a seemingly lifeless redhead plays dead on the ground to her left.
She'd stand around, hands shoved deep in her coat pockets, her hair an uncombed mess, staring vacantly at the sky through her black plastic-frame Dizzy Gillespie glasses, which she wore despite her twenty-twenty vision.
The Saint-Tropez household is out of Roald Dahl: a woman blathers to her personal chef in awful French while her fat and stupid son watches a cartoon and munches vacantly on cheese puffs.
Examples from Classical Literature
The pen dropped from Darnay's fingers on the table, and he looked about him vacantly.
The boozer swung his back to the bar, hooked himself on by his elbows, and looked vacantly out of the door.
He gazed at her vacantly, and, becoming reassured by degrees, burst into a wild laugh.
She passed the envelope to him, and stared at him vacantly while he examined it.
She closed her mouth firmly for a moment and looked him vacantly in the face.
She was not in pain, but lay with closed eyes, vacantly murmuring, as one who dreams.
While he was gone, I sat down on my usual stool and looked vacantly at my sister, feeling pretty sure that the man would not be there.
The Indian turned his ghastly face toward the speaker, and fastened his dark eyes on him, steadily, but vacantly.
He stared at it vacantly, turning it now this way, now that.
He looked at her vacantly, and caught sight of her outstretched hands.
Bird, compassionately, as the woman slowly unclosed her large, dark eyes, and looked vacantly at her.
Her eyes wandered sadly over the dull old chamber, and then looked out vacantly towards the growing dawn.
He gazed at her vacantly, and she began to regret her vehemence.
She vacantly hummed a fantastic tune as she poked at the wood embers on the hearth and munched a cracker.
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