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Discover LudwigThe phrase "looking at nothing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who appears to be distracted or lost in thought. For example, "John was sitting on the park bench, looking at nothing in particular."
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Staying airborne — and alert — for countless hours, looking at nothing but sky, was another.
"Ninety-nine poinineine percent of the time you're looking at nothing happening," Mr. Skaer said.
But if you just look at meat without looking at the life of a cow you are looking at nothing.
We are looking at nothing less than an energy and industrial revolution the likes of which we have never seen".
(Huston is great at the middle-distance, anguished stare: she spends most of the movie looking at nothing).
Elias fed Holik with a pass across the slot, and Holik was looking at nothing but net.
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Her eyes look at nothing.
His eyes seem to look at nothing in particular between clear efforts at focus.
There is, hour after hour, nothing to look at, nothing to do.
Gallegos stood quietly, in the wide central part of a mall, pretending to look at nothing.
When the Finks, knowing that their lease would expire in July, started apartment hunting earlier this year, they resolved to look at nothing north of 14th Street.
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