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Discover LudwigThe phrase "Vacant stare" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a look that shows no emotion or thought, often indicating confusion, shock, or deep contemplation. Example: "She looked at him with a vacant stare, unable to process what he had just said."
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Lake Water begins with the audience filing in while an unhappy young man (Deutsch) is sitting on a dock staring out into the world with a lost, vacant stare while the sounds of loons and other creatures fill the air.
With his tousled hair and vacant stare, Dear certainly looks the part.
My vacant stare and stumbling words tend to get the message across just fine.
He did so in a daze, offering only a vacant stare into the middle distance.
Muhammad Siadi had the vacant stare of someone who might have just returned from a war zone.
Yet with his vacant stare, the haggard intensity in his face, his stringy long hair and his hulking gait, he is already bent over with guilt and doubt.
This time, though, Mr. Levy, while sufficiently ridiculous with his vacant stare, hesitant diction and swept-back gray hair, is also a lovable, vulnerable lost soul.
No wonder relatives dread visiting, their hopelessness compounded when they arrive and say: "Hi Mum, remember me?" only to be met by a vacant stare.
At work, these festival warriors are easy to spot – a farmer tan, a vacant stare, and is that a faint nodding at the photocopier?
You could see it by the way Dr. Norman Scott solemnly knelt by Patrick Ewing's injured right foot, and you knew it from Ewing's vacant stare.
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(His short blond 'fro and somewhat distressingly happy-vacant stare may induce flashbacks to William Katt and that classic of surfer movies, "Big Wednesday").
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