Sentence examples for mental blank from inspiring English sources

He certainly had an embarrassing mental blank.

They usually draw a complete mental blank, providing opportunities for criminals," the police warn.

Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness.

In the witness box Bridger, 47, insisted he had accidentally knocked April over and put her in his vehicle, but had a mental blank over what he did with the body.

As the novel begins, he's just emerging from a seemingly lifelong mental blank-out.

Your oxygen levels change, with less oxygen going to your conscious brain and more going to your reactive brain, leaving you open to mental blanking, memory failure, loss of logic, increase in emotions, narrow your attention and cause you to be edgy.

He simply cannot apprehend anything about them at all: their culture, their history, their topography – his mental map is blank.

Sometimes there's too much alcohol (some other drugs... some... times), a possible death wish (or two?), borderline undiagnosed "fill in the blank" mental flaunts -- or diagnosed but vehemently throttled.

Or were they trapped in a condition of mental vacuity, a permanent blank slate on which nothing could be written?

The Green party leader, Natalie Bennett, conceded she had given an "excruciating" radio interview and attributed her poor performance to a "mind blank" and "mental brain fade" as she launched the party's election campaign.

On the other hand, Diane Keaton's garb suggests either someone stuck in a style rut for the past 30 years, or that she was so traumatised by her recent onscreen naked action with Jack Nicholson that she has suffered a mental and stylistic regression to blank out the memory (and, frankly, who can blame her?) The plethora of boring white sparkly gowns tells another tale.