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Example sentences for "blankly"

Lexicographically close words:
blanket; blanketed; blanketing; blankets; blankety; blankness; blanks; blanky; blare; blared
  1. Trawley ceased speaking and looked at his chief in slow astonishment, for Hoag was blankly staring at the ground.

  2. She stared blankly at her nephew, and then, holding her unbuttoned nightgown at the neck, she strode across the corridor into Paul's room.

  3. Well, I like that," cried Toppleton, raising himself on his elbow and staring blankly at the vase.

  4. How long I stared down blankly into the water, it would be impossible to say; certainly for a good minute.

  5. We all stood and looked blankly at one another for a few moments.

  6. Day began to dawn and flood the room with its drab and gray light, but Janina still sat on the same spot, gazing blankly out of the window, with deeply sunken eyes and whispering with lips blackened by fever: "What am I going to do?

  7. Then again such a feeling of helplessness and discouragement would possess her that she wanted to cry and had no desire to stir from her bed, but lay for whole days, gazing blankly at the ceiling.

  8. She ate nothing and hardly thought at all, but lay in bed and gazed blankly at the ceiling, following with her eyes, the last fly that crept drowsily and half dead over it.

  9. Ben Crider found her there an hour later, staring blankly out over the flawed surface of the lake.

  10. For a moment the men stared blankly at Dennis's "prize" and then broke into loud and prolonged laughter.

  11. For one moment Levi stared blankly at the approaching young Irishman.

  12. That his father should be coolly proposing him for a high office in the State in which, notwithstanding the birthright, he was as new as the newest immigrant, seemed blankly incredible.

  13. Carrington stared blankly into space and remained silent for several minutes.

  14. Antony and his aunt stared blankly at each other.

  15. I came to myself after a long interval to find that I was staring blankly before me and muttering softly to myself.

  16. And still Rance did not waver, but calmly puffing sway at his long, black cigar he looked blankly into space.

  17. Sonora continued to stare blankly at her.

  18. She looks from the card to her father with tears in her eyes; then she goes mutely toward the couch, sits down, and stares blankly in front of her.

  19. She stops for a while, gazes blankly around and starts humming again.

  20. She lies quietly and gazes blankly in the distance.

  21. He sat rigidly in his chair, staring blankly before him, with a fixed expression of annoyance on his face.

  22. His friend looked blankly round and shook his head.

  23. Rosie returned to find him blankly staring.

  24. They stared at each other blankly with wide eyes.

  25. The unaccountable spasm passed, and he entered Whittaker's room, to find that disconsolate youth lying on his back, wide awake, and staring blankly at the ceiling.

  26. She halted in the porch by Armathwaite's side, and gazed blankly at the silent cottage.

  27. He looked blankly at Carl and found that Carl had turned an equally blank look at him.

  28. He looked at her blankly a moment and then laughed and shook his head.

  29. It seemed impossible to do so, and she was too bewildered for a moment to do anything but sit and stare blankly before her.

  30. There, from the window, she looked down and saw Whistling Dan standing as she had left him, staring blankly at the wolf-dog.

  31. Kate Cumberland was staring blankly down at her plate, seeing nothing; and Doctor Byrne looked straight before him and felt the pulse drumming in his throat.

  32. A dead pause followed, during which the three looked blankly at the bed, and then at each other.

  33. He opened the door of the interrogation room, and, seeing that Arthur stood motionless, staring blankly before him, pushed him gently across the threshold.

  34. To start with, Hugh had spent the afternoon going more carefully than usual into books and ledgers, and when he had finished he lit a cigarette and stared a trifle blankly at the wall opposite.

  35. It wasn't that that made him pause every now and again and stare a little blankly in front of him; it was something far bigger and more fundamental than such a triviality as a maid.

  36. Coffee-cups hung suspended in the journey to mouths, and three pairs of eyes stared blankly at the smiling speaker.

  37. I stood looking blankly at them, hardly able to believe what I saw; for Albert Cullen had said distinctly that the train-robbers had fired only four times, and that the last three Winchester shots I had heard had been fired by himself.

  38. Then he relinquished his gaze and turned his monocle blankly upon the American beside him.

  39. He sat up and stared at her blankly through his drenched eyes.

  40. The pale white face of DeLong among them was like a spectre, as he stood staring blankly about and still insanely twisting the roulette wheel before him.

  41. The houses beyond, on Nineteenth Street, where the Jannans' winter dwelling stood, were closed and blankly boarded.

  42. It was a mistake," he said aloud, in a decided, clearly modulated voice, gazing blankly into the warm stillness of the room.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blankly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.