They lookedvacantly after some figures in the crowd and sometimes made a critical remark.
In the upper apartment of a cottage standing alone by the roadside on the outskirts of Boston, Miranda, pale and dejected, sat gazing vacantly at the light of the solitary lamp that lit the room.
Instantly a slim, stiff infantry captain saluted, wheeled sharply, and walked straight to the little file of prisoners who stood with their wrists tied behind their backs, looking vacantlyat the automobile.
The Guides," she repeated, looking rather vacantly at a sun spot that waxed and waned on the dry carpet of fir-needles at her feet.
Sitting still for a time, she vacantly looked about.
After vacantly smoking for a while, Gerald went off to bed.
Even when the procession passed his own house, he remained rigidly in his chair, his large eyes glaring vacantly at the wall opposite.
The archduke left to obey the summons, and Isabella and Christina remained together, looking vacantly upon the birthday-table and the splendid gifts that lay in such rich profusion before their eyes.
Now it so happened that Black-hair had been vacantly wondering to himself whether Frank's black coat would meet across his stomach, or whether the lower buttons and buttonholes were "dummies.
Standing in his own office on the floor below, he glanced vacantly around him.
At the top he paused, staring vacantly at the folk who passed and repassed along the Strand.
He turned into the restaurant and ordered his lunch, and while it was being brought sat drumming his fingers on the table, staring vacantly at the people about him and wondering over the events of the morning.
Sometimes at night in my room, sitting with my book at my side neglected, I would stare vacantly at the wall and treat myself to a feast of dreams, contentedly munch the most delicate morsels of the past and present.
This other was Philip Spangler, who sat all day in the store gazing vacantly at the stove.
Farmer Blaize looked vacantlyat Richard, as if to ask him what he thought of England's peasantry after the sample they had there.
Jimmy stared vacantly for a moment at the pale, washed-out countenance of his interlocutor.
The dock-hand apathetically trundled a small keg from one pile of freight to another, wiped his hands on his trousers, took a dry pipe out of his pocket, and looked vacantly up the river before he replied to Hambleton's question.
And here he was, his head on his hands and his elbows on the table, looking vacantly at the pile of manuscript she had left there, and thinking of the things that should not happen to them both.
She rose unsteadily, cooling her cheeks in her hands and gazing vacantly in front of her.
The woman looked vacantly at her and gave no sign of recognition of her daughter.
The two other women were Caillette and Louise; the latter looked vacantly before her, and all of Louison's caresses were of no avail to cheer her.
Mumbling and stammering, he lookedvacantly into Mona's face, until the truth of his impotence forced itself upon her, and she saw that from him no help for Dan could come.
I"-- His mouth looked blue and cold under his whiskers: then they both stood vacantly silent, while the woman sewed.
She brought him a chair, and for a minute or two he watched her; then he was only staring vacantly at his hands, as they lay before him on the table.
Dowdiness filled the veranda rocking chairs; unlovely hands were folded; faded eyes gazed vacantly at the white road, at the oranges; enviously at the flashing wheels and fluttering lingerie from the great Hotel Verbena.
He seemed like one asleep; yet he did not sleep, but lay with his eyes fixed vacantly on the ceiling, his hand idly stroking his beard.
He stepped into the parlour and stood for a few moments looking vacantly at the floor.
She yielded, and then remained motionless, her glassy eyes staring vacantly at the floor.
Shyuote shook his head, pouted, and stared vacantly to one side.
Say Koitza felt a terrible pang; she staredvacantly at the wicked lad for a moment, and then turned and went into the kitchen.
Pushing us back into the grocery he entered without a word, closed the door behind him, and threw himself vacantly into a chair.
We all looked vacantly at each other; Mosby leaped over his counter and went to the door; Briggs followed with the rest of us.
Ramon Alfarez was draped artistically over the back of her chair, curling his mustache tenderly and smiling vacantlyat the conversation.
In the midst of his rhapsody he heard a bell-boy speaking his name, and smiled at him vacantly as he turned away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vacantly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
