Sentence examples for drawn a blank from inspiring English sources

Asking someone to find the Azores on a map would probably have drawn a blank look a decade ago when the remote Portuguese archipelago was still terra incognita for most travellers.

I've puzzled for days over this, but drawn a blank.

As the weekly commute restarted they had drawn a blank.

So far, it seems, the Academy has drawn a blank.

He knew the photographer's name, but that was all; a Google search had drawn a blank.

I don't wish to be judgemental but I'm guessing you may well have drawn a blank.

Experiments have been trying to detect it for years, but all have drawn a blank.

But The Observer has learnt that Taji has drawn a blank.

Having drawn a blank at Cheltenham Festival, it was a welcome big-race winner for Johnson.

I've drawn a blank on this one too – anyone got any suggestions for leads?

Investigators have drawn a blank at some of the sites of the most notorious alleged massacres.