Sentence examples for blank from inspiring English sources

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blank

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A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile.

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And this is why I decided to leave blank the final glossary of the book – there to hold the place-words that have yet to be coined.

But if everything is either a cause or a cure for cancer, what can we do but blank some of it out?

The governor refused point blank to see him.

Go and look at the placards of those camped outside Parliament - they are most certainly not blank and usually contain words not entirely favourable to your correspondent.

Officers have a strong DNA profile but have so far drawn a blank on the national database.

What if it was a blank canvas for a work of art?

My deepest intimacies are shared with the blank page on my computer screen.

The Financial Times reported that sections of the bill had been completed before the election, but the contentious issue of media ownership was left blank for fear that moguls such as Rupert Murdoch would take offence.

They look blank and I am vividly reminded how far away it all is now, and how big a cultural shift happened in those years.

I recently plucked up the courage to ask a GP about it and he looked blank.

Instead of taking inspiration from the catwalk, the company's menswear and womenswear designers work together and "start every season with a blank canvas", according to Cos head of womenswear Karin Gustafsson, and take cues from architecture, art, photography and music.

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