Sentence examples for instead of blanking from inspiring English sources

Swiss skip Mirjam Ott inadvertently scored one instead of blanking the sixth end, handing Britain the hammer and control of the game.

He took the torn pages and put them through the printer instead of blank sheets.

The chief of staff of the French Army, Gen. Bruno Cuche, resigned two days after a soldier from one of the army's top units fired bullets instead of blanks during a military exhibition, wounding at least 16 people.

Instead of blank holiday apartment blocks or marble-clad hotels, you're more likely to find yourself staying in bamboo huts teetering on stilts (as we did on Koh Tonsay) or atmospheric little guesthouses.

The use of capillary dielectric instead of blank dielectric increased the plasma density by effectively using the voltage sustained in the dielectric for accelerating electrons at the capillary holes, therefore, by forming ion beam-like plasmas at the holes in addition to typical dielectric barrier discharges.

In fact, there were so few people using Stories on Facebook's mobile app, that the company in April began to display grayed-out icons of your most frequently contacted friends instead of blank spaces in the Stories feature that no one much was using.

Instead of the blank feel of a modern hotel room, it had the eccentric collectible-salt-shakers-and-wicker atmosphere of a specific personality.

They know what I'm talking about, and unfortunately, instead of a blank stare, I see the shock and pity on their faces".

In 1835, Ross's uncle, John Ross, who spent years charting Canadian coastlines, dared to pose a question: "What use was there, he asked, in opening an area 'of which perhaps the only satisfaction that can ever be derived would be, that there is, on a piece of paper, a black line instead of a blank'?

The RockMelt team believes that content should be delivered, not hunted, so its new browser app for iPad is built around a stream instead of a blank window.

People are clinging onto their old Apple devices in fear of "what will they do next?" instead of writing blank checks excited for "what will they do next?!" Android is also dominating global market share.