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How to use blank in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Blank means white or pale; without colour. Example: “Not a cloud in the blank blue sky.”

Examples of blank by meaning

adjectiveFree from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.

  • a blank check
  • a blank ballot
  • a blank CD

adjectiveLacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.

  • a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness
  • Not a cloud in the blank blue sky.

adjectiveAbject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.

  • a blank refusal to cooperate
  • There was a look of blank terror on his face.

adjectiveWithout expression, usually because of incomprehension.

  • a blank glassy look
  • Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.

adjectiveEmpty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.

  • a blank day

adjectiveDevoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.

  • The shock left his memory blank.

adjectiveOf ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.

  • The recruits were issued blank rounds for a training exercise.

nounA space to be filled in on a form or template.

  • Write your answers in the blanks.

More sentences with blank

  • Whitman uses free verse to achieve effects impossible under even the broad restrictions of blank verse.From the entry free verse
  • I should know that person's name, but I'm drawing a blank.From the entry draw a blank
  • It was working fine until it went haywire and wouldn't stop printing blank sheets.From the entry haywire
  • I asked him point blank whether he was cheating on his wife.From the entry point blank
  • He removed the paper from the heat, and the paper blanked out.From the entry blank out
  • The teacher blanked out some words from the text, which the students had to fill in.From the entry blank out
  • After his ex-wife moved out, his life was a blank canvas.From the entry blank canvas
  • The cosmicity of the empty, blank view from the telescope made him feel lonely.From the entry cosmicity
  • Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.From the entry blank verse
  • Parameters are like labelled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.From the entry argument
  • I'm the GOAT, point blank period!From the entry period
  • In theory, Network Rail should start each timetable with a blank sheet.2023 September 6, Anthony Lambert, “Train paths: more space for freight?”, in RAIL, number 991, page 32. From the entry blank sheet
  • Our Constitution was a blank sheet of paper before someone took a pencil to it.2023 April 25, Scott Brickell, The Business Behind the Song: Navigating a Career in the Music Industry, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry take something to
  • From then on, I would fill in our blanks, our silences, stutters, whenever I could.2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Penguin Random House, Part 1. From the entry interpreter
  • Peebee: The brains and I are comparing Remnant notes and filling in the blanks.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus. From the entry brain
  • Ordin quickly placed a steel rod into the rough mithril sword blank to increase its mass.2012, J. Michael Fluck, Dragon Alliance: Rise Against Shadow, page 422. From the entry mithril
  • Blank commissions and a promise to repay his expenditure of money were sent to Forbes.2012, Andrew Lang, The History of Scotland, volume 12. From the entry enregiment
  • If this parameter is blank, the SIP phone will not autoregister.2011, Dennis Hartmann, Joshua Samuel Finke, Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager: Part 1, page 114. From the entry autoregister
  • She couldn't get a single thought from his head—it was a gray blank.2010, James Patterson, Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1. From the entry antisepticky
  • Thomas Pemberton" in a hospice replete with "the generic blank stares of the pre-dead".2009, Michael Wutz, Enduring Words: Literary Narrative in a Changing Media Ecology. From the entry pre-dead
  • Soon after Surrey's translation of Virgil, blank verse became a persuasive rival to the heroic couplet.2006, Philip Hobsbaum, “The heroic couplet”, in Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, Routledge, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry blank verse
  • She removed the half-finished portrait on the easel and replaced it with a blank canvas.2004, Sidney Sheldon, chapter 1, in Are You Afraid of the Dark?, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry atelier
  • Orient the glued-up sawn inner stem blank so the sheer is up.2004, John Brookes, How to Build Glued-Lapstrake Wooden Boats, page 80. From the entry glued-up
  • However, the unzip and make programs weren't found, so the default was left blank.2003, D. Curtis Jamison, Perl Programming for Biologists, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry make
  • Thus during each blanking, a line pattern of charges is read into the horizontal register in parallel.2001, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 73. From the entry blanking
  • The name of the spirit you are evoking is left blank.1994, Donald Michael Kraig, “The Conjuration”, in The Truth about Evocation of Spirits (Llewellyn’s Vanguard Series), St. Paul, Minn.…. From the entry grimoire
  • The blank pages gave me permission to discuss anything and everything without required feedback.1994, Delores A. Gaut, Anne Boykin, Caring as Healing: Renewal Through Hope, page 178. From the entry untelling

Meaning of blank

  1. adjective White or pale; without colour.
  2. adjective Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
  3. adjective Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.

Full definition of blank

Questions about blank in a sentence

How do you use blank in a sentence?
Blank is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Not a cloud in the blank blue sky.”
What is a short sentence with blank?
“a blank CD”
What does blank mean?
Blank means white or pale; without colour.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blank (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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