Sentence examples for Draw a blank from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Draw a blank.

If you try to find something out and draw a blank, you don't get any useful information.

Dictionary

Draw a blank

verb

To be unable to produce a required piece of information.

  • I should know that person's name, but I'm drawing a blank.

Exact(59)

— I'll draw a blank.

We draw a blank.

but draw a blank for the rest of the night.

When they don't the readers draw a blank.

But if someone asked us, "Gress much?" we'd draw a blank.

That left the towering American plenty of time to draw a blank.

As for Scotland, they did not just draw a blank on the try front.

Ask moviegoers under 40 who she is, and you may draw a blank.

If the inspectors draw a blank, the credulous will conclude that Iraq has no WMD material.

If he refers to music or whatever from that time, I draw a blank.

Hiriart &/or A. Ugarte," ensuring that searches for Riggs accounts named "Pinochet" would draw a blank.

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