| 单词 | blank |
| 例句 | Night came on and the half-seen heads of the mountains westward were crowned with stars, but the East was dark and blank. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Helena kicks the ball, bouncing it against the blank brick wall of an apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I wrote through blank page after blank page. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My dog always did that when I blanked out. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z His blank eyes appear fixed on the women and their unerring choreography. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The glossy pictures had all been torn from magazines, a collection of pale, blond, hipless women with aquiline noses, bony legs, blank eyes, and thin, wan smiles. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They were giving us a chance to get used to blank time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked thoughtful and said nothing for a long moment, then pulled out a pencil and started to write on the blank piece of paper I had before me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My locator icon was in the middle of a blank screen, which meant I was OTM—off the map. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She stared at the quill and the blank line where her name was to go. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Grabbing my sketchbook, I flip to a blank page and write words, bearing down so hard the letters cut into the page. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite being blanked out for the rest of the lesson, I find myself approaching Mr. Bonner’s desk after class. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The boy and girl on the couch switched to blank sheets on their pads. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It reached out to her, and Jam stared at its blank face, glowing gold in the dimmed lights of Redemption’s house. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But at the beginning, most of those 1001 white cards were blank. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z On the few occasions when he would sit to write, he ended up with a blank page in front of him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But right now I fight to keep my mind blank, to pretend that this room is all that has ever existed and all that will ever exist. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z There was a blank screen instead of paper, and the whole contraption glowed, emitting a warm but not entirely friendly smell. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Picking up a blank sheet of paper, I said, “Let’s start with the logo.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I open my eyes, find a blank page, and leave the cookie cutters behind. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I turn the pages to find a blank page in my journal for today’s events. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the old men still waited uneasily before the silent building and the blank doors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Before lying down, I grabbed my leather- bound journal off the nightstand and turned to the first blank page I could find. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “I left lots of pages blank in the back,” I tell him, “so we can add more this year. It’s to help you remember when it gets hard.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z There was something about the woman that made her want to say intelligent things, but her mind was blank. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His face and his Noise are as blank as I remember but the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man’s mind ain’t knowing the man. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I ask her when I stop laughing, and she just looks at me, blank, lost for words. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Princesse sat on the cooling sand on the beach staring at the spots on her otherwise immaculate undershirt, seeing in the blank space all kinds of possibilities. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see her face, but the faces of the workers I could see were blank, perfectly so. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I stare at my own paper, which remains blank. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As he turned to mount the few stairs to the stage, Kira could see the broad blank expanse across the Singer’s back and shoulders, the blank that she had been picked to fill. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z More than once I accidentally pushed a button and recoiled in terror as the blank screen came to life with exotic tropical fish or swarms of flying toasters. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Overhead, the stars are blanked out by clouds. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems wrong that his dark past should elevate my own blank one. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Or, say, a blank page right there in front of him? Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Lady Constance looked at Penelope with a strangely blank expression on her face and waited for her answer. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Inside was a check, blank except for Henry’s signature, and a twenty-dollar bill. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I find a pencil nub at the bottom of my backpack and start filling in the blanks with awesome things. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Jordan turned back and continued to stare straight ahead with that same blank expression. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I couldn't drink a beer after blanking out. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Three-quarters of the way through the book, the pages go blank. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z It was impossible to tell what he was thinking; his face remained quite blank as he put the little cache of stolen objects back into the cardboard box. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But all that happened, when Hermione fell silent, was that Harry’s brain filled with a sort of blank buzzing, which didn’t seem to allow room for concentration. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Nothing, sir,” I answered, looking suddenly miles deep into the blank wall of the room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Discovering him, seeing his surprise, and presented at once with choices, Winnie’s mind perversely went blank. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” his three kids said in unison, their expressions blank. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A zero represents an answer that was left blank. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I took out Abuelo’s box and looked at the remaining blank pages. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And if there was one thing the epileptic kid could do just as effortlessly as blanking out, it was this: I could swim. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Her eyes are just as blank as the other ghosts’. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z He was the last one off, just behind a tall blond girl with a blank stare. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But Jajas eyes were blank, like a window with its shutter drawn across. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In the end I followed the path of the misty sun, which stared down at me from the gray sky like the dead mans blank and solitary eye. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I took a second breath and bent over to fill in the empty bits of the pass: New-York, I wrote in 18th, January in the blank space. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z And so Horace was filling in the blanks on two certificates of death, and doing so in triplicate, when the phone beside him rang. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s a trial to keep my face blank, to drive emotion from my eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z When a fresh batch of blank exams sits piled on the table, I steal a copy for myself and slip it under the refrigerator. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As if to express his gratitude, the prisoner showed White a Bible, then began to lightly rub a mixture of iodine and water over its blank fly page. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z From the table drawer he took out a penholder, a bottle of ink, and a thick, quarto-sized blank book with a red back and a marbled cover. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "But can't you see —" I said, looking from face to face and seeing the blank finality in their eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at the blank piece of paper in front of me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z They were blank and had no understanding in them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly she understood their strange blank incuriosity, the way their little trotting daemons seemed to be sleepwalking. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Her face was emotionless, a blank lump of clay. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Embarrassed, I slide my drawings underneath my blank writing assignment. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Above it was a dark blank space between the top and the low arch of the opening. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When Sydney comes out for the season, Jill’s eyes are almost blank. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z It's like I blanked out or something, and the nurse is giving me this cup of water, and the weird thing is she's crying. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z At other times he would respond to a question by staring straight at a reporter with a blank expression for as long as three minutes, saying nothing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘So now we must be somewhere here,’ he said, putting a finger on one of the blank pages. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Madame Duboise’s pale green face and flowing rose petal locks suddenly appear on the blank page. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Harry tried not to smile, to keep his own face as blank as possible. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He lets Henry push him backward on the bed and kiss him until his mind is blissfully blank, lets Henry undress him carefully. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Like the others, the guard stood with his arms loose at his sides, face blank, eyes forward, gazing at nothing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z One particularly “wide blank” had to be filled: heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The fires went out, and blank darkness fell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As you crossed the lobby together on the way to world history, Vinny stopped at the carnation table, picked up one of the blank cards—a red one—and began writing. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The rest is a blank, or would have been if not for the fact that everyone with an iPhone clipped me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Amongst them in the Tower's high room Kurremkarmerruk sat on a high seat, writing down lists of names that must be learned before the ink faded at midnight leaving the parchment blank again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z When Luke gave her a blank look, she explained. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The Senator looks back at me with a blank stare. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Dany turned to the blank wall once more, but there was nothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He settles on a blank spot above his fireplace, and he hangs it there, making the tiniest adjustments until the canvas is perfectly set against the wall. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But Alex had nothing to report, and the one piece of information that he had sent—Ian Rider’s diagram—had also drawn a blank. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Bridge’s face looked, yes, undeniably pretty but also slightly stunned: eyes wide, face blank under the automatic smile. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Charles turned to stare, lips parted, his expression as blank and trancelike as a twelve-year-old’s. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I checked my rearview mirror to pull onto the highway, then reached up and shoved the mirror downward so it reflected Shawn’s face, blank and bloodied. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Real stained-glass windows, high up and out of danger, gleamed where once there had been blank walls. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the screen stayed blank and there was no movement on the stage, it seemed like the trial could resume any minute. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I whip through the rest of the pad, but the remaining pages are blank. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I flip through the pages, hoping none of them are blank. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z In 1992, however, there were no more blank spots on the map—not in Alaska, not anywhere. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper can’t have a blank space there, so the editor dumps in a filler. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z But her mama only stared at the fireplace, rocking slowly back and forth, her eyes blank and still as though her spirit had gone away and left the body there rocking on and on. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But,’ said I, ‘to be quite honest, I do not think I can live without something of a musical society. I condition for nothing else; but without music, life would be a blank to me.’ Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z He gave a superior sort of chuckle at the blank look on Harry’s face, removed the front page, and handed it to Harry. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I reached for something else to say, but I came up blank. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In a blank corner I scratched the line, None but ourselves can free our minds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I take down every single note until the wall is blank. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The enormous creature roared pleasantly, rattling all the blank video screens in the game room, then disappeared back into the floor, which closed up around it like a collapsing ring of tiles. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z She sees the deer, who flies and lands and splats, his eyes flat and blank. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I already knew this. Send this collect,” I says, taking a blank. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In class, too, I just started basically blanking out every period, every day. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Lydia took a picture of a blank spot. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It’s a blank, beige kind of conference room, filled with banquet tables, coffee thermoses, fruit baskets, plastic towers of cereal, tiered plate stands, and stainless steel food warmers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The intensity with which young people live demands that they “blank out” as often as possible. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I am on the Pit floor, next to the chasm, and the initiates stand around me, their arms folded and their faces blank. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z June’s face goes utterly blank for a second, and suddenly, vividly furious. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I bought with my blank check enough clothes to fill the backseat of the Cadillac. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Momentarily, she roused herself and looked at him with blank eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The lords of Stormhold eyed each other, one cautious, one wary, one blank. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In coming to Alaska, McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face is so blank, it’s impossible to read. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z He probably thought if I hadn’t blanked out, I would have eaten the little kid I pulled from the river. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z A TV blaring the Weather Channel in the common room went unwatched; the doors were mostly closed; the few people seated in the common room looked confused or blank or—worst of all—scared. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Minho looked over at him, a blank expression on his face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Only the space under the baby is blank. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It's like my life is supposed to be playing, but the VCR is on pause and the screen is blank and maybe the whole rest of the tape is erased. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Robin sat with her arms crossed, staring at the blank screen as the TV warmed up. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I kept glancing at the blank, stony, pinched faces of the men and women staring at me from steps and doorways, and at the children, all white-headed just like you see them in the Appalachians. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Trying to see if I could fill in some of the blanks.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The instant I do, the previously blank desk lights up soft stripes in our team colors, with a welcome message for me over it in white text. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But the blank smiles had never heard of her name. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Billy didn’t think there would be a blank cartridge issued in a squad that small, in a war that old. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The milk would dry almost immediately, and the paper would look blank. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I arrange my face so it’s blank as slate, slump against the wall, and look off into the distance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Afterwards, in the cold, almost unheated train compartment, I sketched on the blank edge of my newspaper what I remembered of the B pattern. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z There were three large blank sheets of paper on the glass display case. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Voldemort smiled his terrible smile, his red eyes blank and pitiless. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I thought of his car, with half a length between it and that drop of two thousand feet, and the blank expression on his face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Harry sat on his four-poster and flicked through the blank pages, not one of which had a trace of scarlet ink on it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He popped one out with his thumb, revealing a blank orb. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z When he reached the blank spot at the bottom, he hesitated. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z His Noise gets uglier, louder, but his face is all blank like a terror from a dream. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z There came at last a dreadful nightfall; and even as the Captains of the West drew near to the end of the living lands, the two wanderers came to an hour of blank despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I should say something about Rue, and Thresh, too, really, but every time I tried to write it at home, I ended up with a blank paper staring me in the face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z On the blank walls of some buildings were long, narrow strips of red paper upon which words had been painted in thick, black ink. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Her blank, white poster board reminds me of Jason’s cards, only huge. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Two blank white eyes stared back at them like cold milk, unblinking and unmoving. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Its blank face began to flicker with zig-zag lines; then some numbers appeared, followed by the date and time. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z She crouched beside the parapet and trailed her hot hand in the limpid water, letting the tinkle and splash of the fountain make her mind a harmless blank. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z But my mother’s expression was what devastated me: a quiet, blank look that said she had lost everything. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was expressionless as a blank page. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I push up my glasses and put an arm over my blank screen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Didn’t mean to interrupt,” she said, her face blank. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z He was looking at her, as though to experience a shared revelation, and for a blank moment, she was not sure what the story was about. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Hagrid simply looked at him, the little of his face that could be seen completely blank, uncomprehending. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I'm finally through the blank areas of the map. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaede finally let herself look at her father, whose face was carefully blank as he regarded the King. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The Lordsport men gazed on Theon with blank, bovine eyes, and he realized that they did not know who he was. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He stepped up to a blank monitor, studied his reflection. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She was blank and hollow-eyed, and there was despair in the set of her features. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The card, like all the others, was four inches wide by five inches long, blank on one face, with postal insignia and a printed one-cent stamp on the other. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Armed guards stood at each doorway, watching the work with blank faces. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z And the wall waits, like an endless blank billboard. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z She leads me to a blank metal door with 308A on it—I wonder what it was used for when our city didn’t require so many cells. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She turned it in the sunlight, but it remained blank. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Amil,” I said, later in the day while Amil sat on the floor folding and unfolding a blank piece of paper. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z For a long moment, no one said anything, and all Thomas saw were blank faces. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a fetus in a bottle. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I tried to make my mind go blank. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I tear the notice off the door, crumple it in my fist, and stand still for a moment, staring at the blank space where the paper once hung. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Garrett said, waving his arm in front of her blank face. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I look up at him, hoping I can school my expression to be as blank and pleasant and dreamy as that of the mortals in the kitchens. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I remember eating ice cream in the back seat of the Buick, and a long blank drive in the dark, and then pulling up in front of Linda’s house. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes gave him a blank look and said he was not conducting any experiments. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He licked the point of his pencil and poised it over a blank sheet of paper. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z As I draw near, he looks up at me with a blank expression, then returns his gaze to the fence. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Net filled in all the blanks in their lives. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no instructions, and the item description field was blank. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Bigger watched to see what Max was thinking, but Max’s face was white and blank. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Nothing was there now but a blank wall. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But her eyes were strangely blank; she moved where Gitl pushed her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was a black blank of a face, only his eyes alive—with hate of me and aglow with a feverish terror from what had happened to us all. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He grudgingly agrees, and I’m alone again with my blank reply screen. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z To somebody like Abelman that letter was like a savings bond, a blank draft on a bank. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I would then realize I’d come all the way to school with no memory of the journey, my mind a blank slate on which I would write that day’s lessons. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He had sat here holding blank negatives, masterpieces of human ingenuity wasted. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She was very thin and very tall, almost as tall as he was, and she was staring right into his eyes, with a steely blank expression. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z With terrible deliberateness Kvothe lifted a blank sheet and lay it carefully in front of the stunned scribe. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lola has a shelf of Filipino movies that look the same, but these have blank labels, so I’m not sure what they are. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Never in my life had I considered willing myself into an epileptic seizure, but if I could have wished one to happen, I would gladly have blanked out on the spot. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Mothers stumbled along with blank, dead faces, pulling sobbing children by the hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When told, "You will understand me," the citizens of France responded with blank stares. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I realized I was already the owner of nine blank postcards featuring photos of loons and lighthouses, but I had the urge to hoard. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Like I hadn’t said a word, he was still offering me the store, just like Aunt Loma offered me her blank book. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z That is, there is no item in an outline, no branch of a tree, no unit of discourse that consistently corresponds to a block of text delimited by a blank line or an indentation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Now I saw him writing the number 19 in a blank. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Meggie leaned her head against Mo's shoulder and stared at the blank wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They are bumped up and down, their bodies distressed, their minds blank with bewilderment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z It’s the kind of silence that goes on for so long that you have no choice but to fill in the blanks and decide what other people are saying for them. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I flip to a blank page and hold the pencil, its tip bouncing on and off the paper as the truck jostles us about. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When I flip it over I expect to find words, but it’s blank. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The prosecutor had a blank expression on his face, and with a pencil he was poking holes in the tide page of his case file. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I pick up the pen he gave me and find a blank page. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s okay that there’s a blank right now. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z At the end of that picnic, watching the distant flames leap up to the sky and blank out all the stars in red flame and oily smoke, she had laid her head on his shoulder. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Weeks passed, but the large blank space he had reserved at the bottom of the totem for his anger carving remained empty. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I have no idea where he got that idea of himself When Lynn beat him, I kept my face blank, but inside I was cheering for her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z But no matter how hard I focused, struggling to come up with a new plan of attack, my mind drew a blank. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Sabrina asks each mentee to write one or two questions on the blank pieces of paper and put them in the question box. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Her mother had filled in some of the blanks about her father’s childhood, including how he’d been mistreated because of his skin tone and his family’s poverty. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was not enough; I saw the blank windows; and that was more terrible than the specters of memory with their piercing gaze; that absence; those sheets of glass that held no image but transmission. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He looked at the blank paper in the typewriter on the desk and sighed. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Flora’s mother reached past him and picked up a blank piece of paper and rolled it into the typewriter. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z In fact, it is so tedious and demanding that many students leave as many as ten or twenty questions blank. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The response is a semicircle of blank stares. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I search for something to say, but I come up blank. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He had been so certain it was about Madu that for a moment he was blank. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My mind went alternately bright and blank in slow rolling waves. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s my blank stare—that I’m looking past them, staring at the little dead girl that looks like my sister standing in the middle of the courtyard. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z His eyes went blank, curiously dead, as he turned away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Alakazam!—and her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Officer Johnson meets her and speaks with her for a moment, though Mrs. Capone’s blank look makes me wonder if she understands any English at all. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There were now two boys before the ingcibi reached me, and my mind must have gone blank because before I knew it, the old man was kneeling in front of me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After all these years of watching Miss America, I should have known what to do, but I was so excited, my mind drew a blank. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes she’d be gone for a couple of hours and then she wouldn’t say where she had been, with her face blank as if she couldn’t say. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z With that blank filled, I took up my duties as assistant senior crew manager. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z His face went blank for a second, and then mortification overcame everything. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He could likely turn in blank pages and still get top marks. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “No, it’s not blank. I drew a ghost in a blizzard.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z His face blank, he puts one arm around the corner, steadying it with the building Wall, and fires twice. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He opened it to the first page, which was blank. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I freeze, staring at the blank expanse of canvas. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z In fact, it was completely blank, for he had neither eyes, nose, nor mouth. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Luke collected the dirty plates, his face still blank. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z His subordinate stands right next to him, looking as blank- minded as ever. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And I would sit with my knees pressed together, next to Jaja, trying hard to keep my face blank, to keep the pride from showing, because Papa said modesty was very important. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I have put my pen to the blank page before me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There are two blank pages and then Max's handwriting appears. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He was newly dead, his face blank with shock, and Sarai felt a tightness in her throat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He was high, so high that he walked in mist and cloud, but before him stretched the blank ascent, the steep side of the mountain. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z So, basically, each of us will take turns saying ‘Did you hear that?’ and we’ll fill in the blank with either a truth or a lie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The only thing was, when I tried to picture myself in some job, briskly jotting down line after line of shorthand, my mind went blank. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The writers collected them, leaving the spaces for Horse of the Year blank. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The heirs stared at him with blank faces, no one nodded, no one even blinked. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The silver lines faded, but the blank grey stone did not stir. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It looked white, blank, as if her cold cream had removed not only her makeup but her personality. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I could see it in his blank eyes every day, his slumped shoulders. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But there was only a single sheet of paper at the bottom of the pile, and it was blank. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I stole a bunch of blank report cards from the school library rather than have Ma see my horrible grades, which were basically zero since I never showed up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Sandy turned to a blank page, pushed his taped glasses up the broken bridge of his nose, and looked at the judge. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He opened the ink bottle, dipped his pen, and scratched something across a blank page. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z After looking blank a moment, the chaplain nodded quickly with recollection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Still Helen stood now, desperate, prideless, before Theresa’s blank apartment door. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In Zora’s rice-paper house, with misty light coming in at the windows, I was like a blank canvas waiting to be filled with what she told me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Not angry, or sad, or disappointed, not even surprised, just—blank. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The three blank sheets of paper were still there, and there was another pencil. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Again I turned to the blackboard and lifted my hand to write, then I was blank and void within. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His face goes blank, and he looks down at Helene without conceit or triumph. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I look at the glass, but it's blank, without a reflection. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Have you ever seen any of these ?” Major Major looked with a blank expression at copies of personal correspondence from the hospital on which the censoring officer had written “Washington Irving” or “Irving Washington.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z His expression—blank and hard—never changed as I answered the attorney’s questions. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "All right, all right, I'm writing a check now. I'm writing them a blank check." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Rondell just listening to everybody with a blank look on his face, like he wasn’t even at the party and was hearing about this supposed fight for the first time. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z A woman stares at us, her face blank and her eyes dark and circled. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z During tests we were given blank maps of the thirteen colonies, and asked to fill in names, dates, capitals. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He takes a deep breath, sighs heavily, then turns back to me, his face a blank. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But then the words flew away and she went blank. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Later I would feel bad about such things, but when I came back from blanking out, I acted so horribly. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I sit down, open my pad to a blank page and try to draw, but I can’t concentrate, can’t even make a decent line. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I call it “blanking out” because things don’t get “black,” like some people might say. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Kyle stood on a pair of glowing green footprints in a line with seven other contestants facing the blank video wall. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t want this out of this room,” the squadron leader said, and everybody looked blank, shrugging with innocence and indifference. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Sometimes when I hear that something or other is selling at a fraction of its normal cost, I comment that the fraction is probably Vz, and am met with a blank stare. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When I look back at my first party at Manderley, my first and my last, I can remember little isolated things standing alone out of the vast blank canvas of the evening. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The girls on the other side of the carriage are watching me, their faces blank. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Her light blue eyes had gone blank, like shallow pans of water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than the blank canvas I feared during my conversation with Josh, I saw myself volunteering with the MSA, shining in my classes, and having time for myself. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Was that a kind of bestial derision that he detected in those blank grey eyes? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly I knew I could not go back up to that room with its mottled mirror, its dead lightbulb and its blank negatives. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I take the box back to the table, and on the blank side of an insurance form I write, Sheila— I wanted you to have this stuff, just in case. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I open to the first blank page in my sketchbook and start to draw, the memories coming to life again in front of my eyes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Not all of which are white and at this point very few of which are blank.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Dr. Z did fill in the blanks on the one that Branwell had made, and he wrote on the bottom, “She’s beautiful, Bran, and she can’t wait to meet her brother.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are blank note cards in this drawer,” announced Andrew. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Behind the figure he could see all the rest of them—the swarm of them with their blank faces and staring, harrowed eyes, and he couldn’t wrest the pole free. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Dress Mr. Potato Head up in plastic droopy eyes and thin-pursed lips, and you could replicate Mr. Moss’s blank stare in front of the television while his wife was torturing a child. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She pauses at a page that holds a scrap of paper bearing the looping signature of Lainie Burgess, next to a space where an equal-sized piece has been removed, leaving only a bright blank void. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I know it must be Uriah’s blank face she sees when she looks at me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She glanced at the blank TV screen, and then flipped through the pile of DVDs to select another. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But when the refugee looked up, the doctor saw only a blank for a face; he was indistinguishable from any of the refugees swarming the quay. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His x’s were still there, the blanks were still blank. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at the blank space at the bottom of the pole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z My mind went blank; I shut my eyes; my heart thumped somewhere in my throat. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen Marcuses press into the circle of light, all holding the same belt, with the same blank expression. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Do you see how he’s left the space white and blank behind the gull? He doesn’t want anything to distract the eye from the outstretched wing.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I like to watch his hands as he works, making a blank page bloom with strokes of ink, adding touches of color to our previously black and yellowish book. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Flip to a blank page and place it in my lap. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Because Billy never . . Albert sighed. “It’s that blank piece of paper that makes me the saddest of all.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They left, and so I sat with my parents and stared at the blank TV and wanted to turn it on but knew I shouldn’t. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Outside Kensington Palace, Alex takes Henry’s phone out of his hand and swiftly opens a blank contact page before he can protest or sic a PPO on him for violating royal property. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I try to keep my face blank as she continues. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She capped her marker and shoved the blank easel back to the corner of the room. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z My drawing pad is open on the coffee table before me, but the page is blank. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Father emptied a card file for Margot and me and filled it with index cards that are blank on one side. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Pollard’s face was blank, his voice barely above a whisper. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A bald doll poked out of the top, sizing me up with blank and beady eyes. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She pulls a stack of blank cards from her purse. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Although according to the Christian faith this ceremony gave him a clean slate, he did not have a blank canvas on which to paint his life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But something warned Gilly that Miss Harris was not likely to crumble at the sight of a blank sheet of paper. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I sat down next to her blank. made.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Several other military jeeps cross our intersection, and I see the blank faces of their soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Harry, his face still blank, his eyes still locked on Conor’s, stepped up close to him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The blank form feels like empty promises of what could have been. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The one who wrote that poem about a blank white page or something. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Pause, with my pencil hovering above the blank page. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I stare at a blank piece of paper until I crumple it into a ball and stuff it beneath my textbook. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Ashima still dreams of the letter at times, discovering it after all these years in the mailbox on Pemberton Road, opening it up only to find it blank. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Though he woke up night after night and remembered what he was planning to do, and his mind was blank with fear. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z His face was blank now, his mouth open in a low howl as constant and unthinking as the sound of wind through winter trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z That’s what this feels like, but where each of the new frames I add is just a blank screen of longing. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z If you drew a blank card from the deck, that meant you could fill it in, assigning it a point value and an effect, the more random the better. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I lay on my bed and stared upward, wishing I could make my mind as blank as the ceiling. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I tap my pencil against the blank page of my sketchbook. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z We learn to sit up straight, eyes front, faces blank, both feet on the floor, listening to the whack of rubber on cringing flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Uh, yes. Director. Sir. It’s just that I—” My mind goes blank. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Or what would happen if she ran out of stories, her mind went blank, and she knew if she didn’t keep talking, he would kill her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I know that it is the fashion these days for a defendant to say: ‘Everything went blank to me.’ Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The house seemed very large, seen from here, with all its windows shuttered and blank, like closed eyes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The theater consisted of a few dozen folding chairs arranged before a bedsheet or the blank wall of a vacant hangar out near the airstrip. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Within that last door her candle showed them a small room like a dungeon-cell: floor, walls, ceiling all rough stone, unfurnished, blank. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Frederick has begun to draw a new spiral on a blank sheet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z For seconds, a full minute, he let the beauty of the sunset flood him, his brain blank, just pulling it in. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He offered to instead take Roosevelt down the unknown River of Doubt to survey it and fill in the blank space on the map. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But even with the number, the cell phone, two blank cards, and a pencil in my pocket, I don’t feel prepared. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She might even fill in the blanks for them after they’ve left the room. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I found the first blank page on the pad. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Large parts were unexplored, leaving a blank space about the size of Montana on the map. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I open my journal to a blank page and write, God Has Been So Good to Me! before I forget. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But right now, in real life, it feels like we both have blank thought balloons over our heads. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He stared at me, foolish and blank once more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She wished she could push her mind past those blank white eyes into whatever of Mr. Randolph all these books must represent. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Especially when she turns to me with eyes that are blank. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z We turned more pages, hunting for blank spots. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z My mind was blank as I tried to think of a way to make him let me go. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Piper didn’t even cry, but just sat there looking completely blank which was worse. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But every time I resolved to hand JT a blank piece of paper, I wondered if this would be the day he came to his senses and asked me out. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s the principal trick of Congolese cooking: rubbing two leaves together to give color and taste to another day’s translucent, nutritionally blank ball of manioc. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When he saw the blank regions that characterize helical patterns, he jumped into action, quickly spilling out several possible helical TMV structures. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Their progress was followed by the blank, incurious eyes of second infancy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I left that line blank and continued filling out the application. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Meeks was already repeating them to himself, staring at the blank space she had occupied mere moments before. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And then her frown was washed over by a puzzled blank look, and she began to talk as if she were trying to remember where she had misplaced something. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Guards with blank faces stand at the door, while two others hold my shackled arms. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But this time I went blank for no reason I could think of. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat on the couch after the show, my pencil still poised over a blank page, and stared straight ahead. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z And so far, as he looked at his painfully blank page, he was leaning toward “not at all.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Little could be seen from watchtower or wall but a blank whiteness covering everything. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I pull forward one of my two blank cards and write in big block letters an unbendable, sharp-cornered David-word: RULE. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were born we were blank pieces of paper; nothing had been written yet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The blank portion was limited, for the narrow strip was crowded by lines of text and a tiny picture of a hero and heroine embracing under a eucalyptus tree. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The Zosma guards were like mounted statues, eyes blank and fixed on nothing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When I came back she tore out a blank check and then handed me a hundred-dollar bill she had folded in the side of her wallet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Her eyes are open, but blank, and her facial muscles are slack. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Mornings spent listless in silence and in fear of confronting the blank sheet of paper. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In her anger, her mind was going blank. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He drew a few blank lines and spent the afternoon trying to recruit everyone in the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z His eyes adjusted a little to the strangely dim light, but he couldn’t get them to see anything but blank floor and empty walls. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They were supposed to leave a blank piece of paper under a rock outside our weak place in the fence, showing they were ready to come. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z His daemon, the marmot, was not blank and incurious as the nurse’s dog had been, but sat politely on his shoulder watching and listening. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z We ran down the pages, filling in the blanks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a blank sheet of paper on the bulletin board next to it calling for volunteers. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I took my daybook out of my knapsack and found the next blank page, the second to last. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z His legs collapsed, his mind went blank, and he fell to the ground, unconscious. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z So I sit down at our dining room table with a blank piece of paper—all bright white and staring at me and making my head hurt. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z She sees me, and for a second her expression is blank, like she doesn’t know who I am. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I stare at her and keep my expression carefully blank. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A blank movie-star smile had been all she passed to Big Ma. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea that the pages will stay blank forever now is unbearable. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She stared at a blank page for a long time. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The nurse was about as old as Mrs. Coulter, Lyra guessed, with a brisk, blank, sensible air; she would be able to stitch a wound or change a bandage, but never to tell a story. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Inside those blank, sinister bundles of tissue paper piled up at the front of the church there could be anything. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The doors were blank and foreboding, but this was no time to hesitate. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Five faces in a row uniformly drained of color and went blank with a kind of stunned dread. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In some mysterious way, from this horror of blank boundless vacancy the best of all things came into being. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I stared at the wall beside my bed thinking the blank boringness of it would lull me to sleep, but no. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He licked a finger and flipped to a blank page, uncapped his pen. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And a six-pack of blank cassette tapes. park Eleanor didn't call that first night. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Yes, and when she returns to the States, she'll find herself suddenly going blank over some word in English or, like her mother, mixing up some common phrase. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We saw his blank pockmarked face as he went by, piping, the children close behind him shouting and pulling at him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He saw something flash in Archie’s eyes, like looking at a blank window and observing a ghost peeking out. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The men hovering around us all had that murky quality to their expressions—blank smiles, blanker eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Jean Louise looked around at a sea of perplexed faces; she could spot guilty parties easily on public occasions, but she was met with blank astonishment on all sides. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Or a dead end, if that’s what fate decreed—nothing but a blank, pitiless wall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Faith and I were both quiet for a while after that, staring at the blank wall opposite. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Charlie’s face is blank as a wall, and I do my best to drool. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I find a sheet of blank paper and press it over the note. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I eat shrimp and sweet potato cakes and write words on blank lined paper: “fade,” “extinguish,” “evaporate,” “niqabize.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I turn a corner that I think will take me to another staircase, but I end up in another blank hallway, just like the last one I was in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And the response is a blank stare or a flat “Oh, yeah.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There are still blank pages at the back, but before them is a page that reads DEADLINE, followed by a date that’s only six days away. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z She stopped for a moment, a blank look on her face. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Baba's arrival gift waits for me, full of blank, dry pages. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I black out a whole blank page, then another, and another. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z My hands were still by my side, my face as blank as a clear sky, but I wasn’t fooling him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z That same blank stare he gave me just the day before. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z But he hadn’t seen it and I couldn’t speak to tell him, frozen in place as I was, my dying flashlight flickering over the blank woods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Cordelia throws herself backward onto a blank front lawn, spreads her arms out in the snow, raises them above her head, draws them down to her sides, making a snow angel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Holly also gave me blank sheet music and encouraged me to compose original songs on the piano. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The screen went blank and I realized, if Henrietta’s children and husband wouldn’t talk to me, I needed to visit Clover and find her cousins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Having neglected to pack writing paper, he began a laconic journal on some blank pages in the back of Tanaina Plantlore. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, I basically don’t talk in class either, but it’s so hard to keep my face blank when people are trying to mess with me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I feel myself shift, already losing bits of my prenatal omniscience, tumbling toward the blank slate of person- hood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Whole areas of that relationship were still blank to me, but I knew something about the competitive, prestige seeking aspect of it, and about the perpetual conversational duel that can result from it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Smiling slightly at the look of delighted incredulity on Neville’s face, Professor McGonagall tapped a blank schedule with the tip of her wand and handed it, now carrying details of his new classes, to Neville. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The girl looks at me again, not crying, not smiling, just blank as ever. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I pin my eyes to the blank page. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She looks at her blank page once more, then pushes it at me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I rushed to my room and grabbed my notebook plus a blank one for Abby. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I yank the zipper open on my backpack to find a blank card. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The book was not even half full, and though he hesitated for a moment, Cabot Searcy decided to write something on the first blank page he saw. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The alley led out into the main street, and down the next turning, not five minutes away, was the junk shop where he had bought the blank book which was now his diary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But when I tried to think up something witty or funny to ask, my mind went blank. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Udell ignored the blank stares she received from the class. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z And we looked with bated breath into the blank and expressionless features of the man of science, asking with our total beings: Do you bring us hope or disaster? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something about his manner so suspicious that I asked him point blank if he had been asleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The word Harmony in bright green starts to flash across the otherwise blank ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He looked at the wood, blank and still, waiting. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Syl give me another blank look and says, “I couldn’t tell you.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Well, not blank, but not exactly helpful, because most of the links were for buying birds and Genie didn’t have any money, besides the ten bucks Grandma had given him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When her eyes get around to me, her face goes completely and immediately blank. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The past has become discontinuous, like stones skipped across water, like postcards: I catch an image of myself, a dark blank, an image, a blank. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I was about to go when the blank spot on the living room wall caught my eye. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I knew they must have happened, because of course they happened—and here I am with a diagnosis and medications—but nearly all my medical treatment is a blank. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I took the book and flipped through the blank pages, then handed it back. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His face when he looks up is completely blank. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I brought Trevor over to apologize for his part in whatever happened today. Also, he wouldn’t tell me the whole story, so I hope Zoe will fill in the blanks.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z But I can’t shake the idea that he’s in there, at this moment, behind the blank red bricks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face goes blank and then she recovers, the corners of her perfect mouth turning up in a perfect fake smile. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She had lain in the darkness of her room, her mind blank, her body numb. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She flipped open the book, which had cloth-covered cardboard covers and blank pages inside. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Dell was surprised to see that, instead of complaining, the hostile teenager actually looked enthused to employ colored pencils to fill in blank spaces. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z But looking at the cold face with its blank, hooded eyes, he felt something stirring inside him and knew it was fear. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The thing had been plastered on every blank space on every wall, even outnumbering the portraits of Big Brother. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It occurs to me, too, that she left blank the line in her questionnaire where the student’s age was to be filled in. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Shadow wondered about the other trains he’d seen, blank windowless metal cars which went on for mile after mile hooting their lonely way through the night. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z There’s a pen on the raggedy motel table; I reach for it and turn to a blank page. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Zoey has this blank look on her face—this blank, helpless look—like she knows what’s about to happen, and there’s nothing she can do to stop it. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I nod and start filling in the blanks on the application. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Many had perfectly blank looks, but a few listened intently and nodded their heads in agreement. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With a cry of dismay the fleeing pair saw the blank wall ahead. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Two guards stand ready with guns in hand, their faces blank. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The form is blank except for my name and age. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The Earthmen looked blank and Cutie continued, “What is the center of activities here in the station? What do we all serve? What absorbs all our attention?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A spectral fog enshrouded the island, blanking it from view, and we broke from rowing to watch it fade. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z We all just look at him, blank stares. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z She grabbed a blank piece of paper, a cup of black paint, and a thin brush. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Crouching in her corner, her blank gaze fixed on some faraway place, she no longer saw us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Three walls are blank, the fourth is entirely glass, providing a window to the city. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They’re approximately the same size as yearbooks, but purchased for their blank pages. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The screen is still blank as we walk down the aisle. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Laughing, Harry turned to contemplate the blank wall behind which, he was sure, Draco Malfoy was now standing frozen, aware that someone unwelcome was out there, but not daring to make an appearance. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The plane was so far away that at times the strong glare of the sun blanked it from sight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And the door took her place like a sheet of blank paper, and then a larger sheet of paper took the place of the door, and I drifted toward it and smiled myself to sleep. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Outside the sky was blank, the light pewter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I caught her staring into the middle distance just for a moment, her eyes blank, looking not at the Asparagus, but past it. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It was merely a symbol for a blank place in the abacus, a column where all the stones were at the bottom. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Elizabeth pushes her glasses up her nose and gives her mom a blank expression. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z What he suddenly saw on this blank paper, it was impossible for me to tell; but something had caught his eye. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The play was demanding because the dialogue was in blank verse. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I spend the rest of the night staring into that blank space. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “About a film you could make for a big audience, I mean,” Sahil continued hastily when he saw our blank faces. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It was dark; there was nothing to see out there except a blank wall. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The child was no longer a blank slate; every newborn had been inscribed by genetics and evolution. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His eyes would suddenly go blank, leaving two gaping wounds, two wells of terror. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "Get it? I'll give you some more. You have to fill in the blanks. Fifty-two C in a D." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The door had a long expanse of blank wall on either side, as if the room behind it was bigger than the others. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z When she’s settled back with her magazine, I slide the blank cards into my shorts pocket. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked up at Mong, who was still staring straight ahead with his crazy blank look. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Looking at the side of his face, I saw that it was absolutely blank. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z First we opened the shutters of the window which looked out across a narrow stone-flagged yard at the blank face of a stable, pointed to look like the front of a miniature house. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I still remember the woman’s blank face as she drove. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On the next blank page I wrote, “I opened the door one day and there he was.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Usually I can read people, but his face is as blank as a brand-new notebook. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I was sitting in bed, staring at a blank page in my journal. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I know, though, why the page is a blank. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Additional blank canvases leaned against the wall nearby, beside shelves stocked with jars of paint. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z My mind was a blank, and that was unusual because during therapy sessions I always had a great deal of material to bring out and talk about. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It was divided into chapters but Chapter 80 was unfinished, and after that were some blank leaves. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But the very center of her palm was blank. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Their blank faces hide any feelings or fleeting doubts. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Her pert neat little daemon trotted along at her heels just as brisk and blank as she was. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Johnny Manuelito and John Benally passed out pencils and blank sheets of paper and then went to the front of the room by the blackboards. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat motionless, pencil poised, staring at the blank paper. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare at these faces without features—these blank ovals with hair—looking from one to the next with increasing desperation. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I scribbled Okay on my own notebook and then turned to a blank page as Dr. Hyde started talking about Sufism, the mystical sect of Islam. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Laika had curled up between my hand and my hip, waiting for me to come back, like she always did when I blanked out. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Canvases—some blank, some painted on, some drawn on—are all over the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Against that blank landscape, she and The Taker are in Mixed Media, and they are cutting images from design magazines. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z They remind me of the paintings Gram left in her studio, the bits of blank canvas peeking out between all the colors. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z It is densely inscribed, more ink than blank page. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They sprang to his own, his mind filling in the blanks. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I was not skeptical so much as blank, unable to understand. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I lifted up the first, blank, page, and surveyed those beneath, to see, as Bono quoth, what the man on the street was wearing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I squeeze my eyes shut, trying to force my mind to go blank, but it won’t. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But when she was done, she simply sat, looking at the blank walls with her timeless eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He was standing between the two trees gazing at the blank wall of the cliff, as if he would bore a hole into it with his eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z New Clairmont’s halls are glass on one side and blank on the other. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z His face was the picture of blank innocence as he listened to Sela’s instructions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His pleading look slowly disappears, replaced by a blank stare. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He had found it, a folded square of apparently blank parchment, which he now smoothed out and tapped with the tip of his wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Cole’s eyes slid out of focus and back again as she gazed intently at the blank paper for a moment. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He had the weakest smile, like he really didn't have the strength or the will to break the blank stare and make his face match the words that came out of his mouth. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She looked around the blank walls of the room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Is that why the last piece of paper is blank?” he asked. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The envelope was blank—no address and no sender. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes, and tried to make her mind go blank and blue, like a wide, cloudless sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Every eye turned to him, and those deaths lying on the floor sat up to turn their blank, mild faces to his tiny, passionate one. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Montag said nothing but now, looking back, sat with his eyes fixed to the blank screen, trembling. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z A few blank windows stared down on them in silence from the husks of the giant buildings. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But I soon find myself staring at the blank columns, my fingertips tapping away at the edge of my laptop instead, my mind a million miles away. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I pull forward two blank cards and scrawl: Yeah, right. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She gives me a look of blank incomprehension. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Little kids play outside, kicking up dust while their parents mill around, faces drawn and blank, fear in their eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Google, Genie’s most loyal partner, was once again coming up blank. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She tried to recall anything she’d learned at the Night Zoo that could help her, and drew a blank. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It was a blank spot in the Babylonian system of numeration. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Andrew leapt in beside her and she turned the ignition and then her memory went blank. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z High walls pressed close on either side, and ahead was a blank windowless mass of stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I opened it, expecting a multiple-choice exam, but it was blank. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Tobias stays frozen, his arms at his sides and his face blank. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Now, Herbert,” said I, “with reference to gaining some knowledge of his history. There is but one way that I know of. I must ask him point blank.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The two-minute bell rang, and Bridge’s attention jerked to the blank page in front of her. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Then the shortened sheet was copied again, producing a full-sized page with blank white space where the “Top Secret” stamps had been. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and blacked the yin half of the symbol, then pushed it back to my companion. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She sniffed too, but for her the pages were blank. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to remember what’s on the first floor, but I come up blank. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I sort of wrote things down in this little leather book I bought, filled with blank pages. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z This happens every time—the blanking out, the waking up. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The basket was on the floor beside him; in its corner, beside Gabriel’s head, the stuffed hippo sat staring with its blank eyes. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Chess hoped Emma was listening closely to hear what they needed to be extra cautious about, because he blanked out for a moment. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Her expression looks blank . . . but behind it, something flickers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But I kept my face blank, because I wasn’t supposed to know what was in his Fred Flintstone bank. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z When he mentioned his concerns to another Klan officer, all he got was a blank stare. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes are wide and growing more blank, like they did when she closed up on herself and started rocking. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Instead of leaving a blank space where my baby picture was meant to be, the editors made my senior portrait big enough to take up both spaces. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Fenoglio had sat down at the table again in front of a blank sheet of paper and was rapidly scribbling a few words on it when the door opened. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z No matter which program he ran it through, the computer came up blank. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “He’s growing up. They’ll attack him soon, and then his life will become a blank, indifferent misery. He’s doomed.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Like pretty much every time my gramps says something, I only understood half the words, but as soon as the old man went back to the picking, Diego filled in the blanks. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Penelope finally settled on a lovely blank journal that she thought would make an elegant gift. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Behind her is a large circle of blank screens, like moths circling a flame. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She turned to look at me, her face blank. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I gaze up at the blank wall, and for the first time in forever, I don’t see the swastika I put there. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I’ve known people who have taken IQ tests in the past, and whenever I’ve asked them to repeat one of the questions, they’ve always drawn a blank, saying, “Oh, you know, they were...multiple-choice things.” Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z That was something that frequently happened when I blanked out. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I collect the links, but when I get to Jordie, his are still blank. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I stare at the huge blank paper in front of me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Her head twisted around, her eyes locking on mine, their expression still strangely blank. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Simmon gave me a blank look and I realized that he was too far into his cups to catch sarcasm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then all of the giant video display screens in front of me went blank, and four lines of glowing green text appeared on them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Time and again Nat explained something in the simplest words he could think of—only to see a blank look on the man’s face. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She noticed that his lids barely covered his blank, rolled-up eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Dorian almost sagged with relief, but he kept his face blank, kept his words steady as he said, “Thank you for hearing me out.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Until I stumble upon a totally blank pageant registration form. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He opened his eyes this morning, but they were blank and unfocused, the eyes of a newborn animal. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z My eye fell on a blank page of the hotel stationery on the desk. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The Wonder Dome was just a blank canvas. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Daisy went quiet for a long time, her eyes blanked by concentration. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I force my mind to go blank, like I do on the rare occasions I try to sleep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z If it comes up in a crossword puzzle, I'll leave the spaces blank and work around them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Besides, she personally found poetry very interesting, and since her students were more or less blank slates when it came to literature, she felt she might as well do what she liked. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The man stared at them, blank, bending his neck slightly after each slap. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “You caused quite an explosion. I stared at the blank bronze screen. Half a million people evacuated? Injuries. Illness. What had I done? “The telkhines were scattered,” the god told me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Oh! dear no!” said Edna, with a blank look in her eyes. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Black and white fireworks explode across my field of vision, a shifting, shimmering pattern that blanks out everything else. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Along the wall, oversize mannequins with blank white faces stared at us with their eyeball-less eyes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It’s been eight years since Loma gave me that book, and not long ago I read through all I wrote down on its blank pages. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I lifted the white chalk to the blackboard and, as I was about to write, my mind went blank, empty; I could not remember my name, not even the first letter. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I look directly at him, my face blank yet confident. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Grinning, I flip to the contents and then back to the blank page. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She looked blank, as though she were not quite sure who Caroline was but felt she shouldn’t ask. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Think of those people at Warren, the empty smiles, the blank expressions, everyone laughing at them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z So here it was, just five days before the competition, and the foam core was still completely blank. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z I’ve heard so much about their lives together before me, but sometimes I wonder about what they chose not to tell me and it’s those blanks that I like to fill in. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Perhaps an image of my father, blank to me, beckoned in her fancy in a house where I might have growm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Three times he walked up and down in front of the stretch of blank wall. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She went past, smiling at him, but his face remained blank. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of the rows of screens, blank, right in front of me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He glanced at them hopefully, but was met with blank faces. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z As Ben agonized over a blank memory, Mr. Loring busied himself by walking around the room removing scraps of paper that were wadded and thrown under each desk in the room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She was milking it for all it was worth, and judging from the blank stares of Kevin and the jury, Mr. Robineau and I were the only ones who got the joke. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She smiles at them but is greeted with blank stares. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He points it at the room's blank wall. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But Rondell just looked at me with a blank face, wadding up the plate I’d just given him, and told me: “Who?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Her face turns from blank to confused to stunned. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I stare at Marlene, whose eyes are blank like painted stones, like spheres of glass. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “Package of Picayunes, please,” I said in response to her blank look. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been times when consciousness, even the sort of consciousness that one has in sleep, had stopped dead and started again after a blank interval. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It’s just a giant picture of a plant, with little arrows and blanks where we’re supposed to label the parts. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Some pages she left blank for future notes and observations. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The blank spaces on the chart tell me that she hasn’t recorded anything. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The whole time he watches us with this blank expression on his face. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Danny’s “you make me sick” faces met my “too cool to care” blank stares. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Granted, my mind was pretty blank to begin with, and I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted or what I needed, but I was totally certain what I didn't want. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The book reminds me of the dictionary he gave me for Christmas, except when I open it, all the pages are blank. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Today was a Vocab test and I drew a complete blank on the word swivet. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He had turned to the last page, which was mostly blank. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I hung my coat on the rack and stowed my bicycle in a back room, amid ink pots and reams of blank paper. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z We walked up to the post-office and asked for a telegraph blank. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z His expression is blank, but there’s a glint of something in his eye. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Burning lines raced through his consciousness, connecting far-flung dots and filling in blanks, erasing question marks and adding a dozen more for every one erased. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She could send him to the refrigerator, which was decorated with the blank couple on the bicycle built for two—or, as now, she could wheedle, “Tell me a story, Billy boy.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind would always go blank whenever I tried to picture her, except for her thick, straight hair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z All glorious reigns have these blank patches, during which the Crown is unpopular. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a blank space was left where the word had been, like a fleeting thought at the edge of a dream. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It was not so much clouding up as thickening, somehow, from every direction at once, the blank blue gone to haze. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared at me, her face as blank as a wall. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z But now there was a box of blank wall where the painting hocked for my bail money had been, I couldn’t remember which. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z They were blank and blue and they ’peared to be looking square at you, but you could tell they waren’t really seeing a thing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I take a minute to calm down, and then I set the brush on the palette, move the unfinished painting to the floor, and open up a blank page in my sketchbook. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I made my mind a blank and fell, sank away like a stone through earth and sea, toward the dragon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He nodded, but his face was all blank and he still wasn’t saying anything. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z While other students casually worked to complete the worksheet, Boobie ate some candy and left blank the entire second page, which asked for definitions of certain genetic terms. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom’s face disappeared from the giant screen, replaced by the blank, blinding light again. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I worked to keep my face blank, my voice expressionless. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity; they stared at him with a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in their eyes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The enormous creature merely looked at Violet with its blank white eyes and shook its head, then dismissed her with a silent gesture. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z And I’d planned to “fill in the blanks” during the explanation, like a lot of people do...but there’s no getting away with that now. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z They pried the stela from the ground with wooden poles, but it was blank. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The number of the church was familiar to me, and yet for a moment my mind was blank. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For a second that contained an eternity, Harry stared into Cedric’s face, at his open gray eyes, blank and expressionless as the windows of a deserted house, at his half-open mouth, which looked slightly surprised. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He touched the blank of the face, tenderly it seemed, planted his chisel at the forehead and was about to come down on her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He shook her gently but the blank look remained, so he went to the tap and splashed a bucket of cold water on her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He would think of this purpose until sometimes, after a long day and night of work, he would become blank so that he would forget for a minute just what the purpose was. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There’s no reaction at all—his face is completely blank. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned the face up, the blank dial with little wheels clicking and clicking behind it, not knowing any better. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked me in the eye, not with the blank, unseeing stare of the Nazis, but with genuine interest and even a glint of humor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Fang was back in a few minutes, his eyes still blank and bloodshot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He simply stared at his mother with a blank expression, his head still spinning from the last hour’s events. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I shook the pen a few times to get the ink going, and placed a blank page on top of Abuela’s coffee table. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Briefly he made the death face again, with its blank eyes. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He hands me a blank sheet of computer paper and says, "I need your full name, your address, date of birth, social, height, weight, and eye color. And a hundred bucks." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z My brain feels blank to everything, like a mound of clay, smooth, uninterrupted, and shapeless—without scars or memory. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She keeps buying blank scrapbooks at the craft store. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Now he was coming to the end of the inlet, a high blank wrinkled mass of rock against which, narrowed to the width of a little creek, the last sea-waves lapped feebly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z At home I line Jason’s blank cards on my desk, ready to draw. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z With blank expression, I slide down into the visual details. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Poppy tried to phone the police in Ramallah, but the phone line was blank. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “I want to fill in the blanks in your life before they store your files.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I know the technique, how to look blank and as if you are listening when really you are trying to fly away from your body. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z As in all atlases, there were two completely blank pages at the very end. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The veela had started to dance, and Harry’s mind had gone completely and blissfully blank. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Three faces nodded at her, eyes blank with exhaustion. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z His paper is blank except for its title and opening sentence. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I shove one hand into my jeans and hold the phone with the other, pressing the volume up button each time the screen goes blank. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z As before, in the dead of winter, her dreams were blank. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z As was always the case after blanking out, I could not decide which way I was supposed to go. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Thirteen,” I said, pointing to a blank square. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d say it was a gesture of contempt, except his face was blank. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She was filthy and sweaty—from the exercise or the blank drawing time? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I keep on doing that until my mind goes blank. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z There are places where my memory goes blank. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Lydia looked up from the blank page she was staring at on her screen while reminiscing. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I give him a hopeful look but stare into a blank face. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z We learn to sit up straight, eyes front, faces blank, both feet on the floor, listening to the whack of rubber on cringing flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was used to looking at blank pages, and she was used to filling them up with things that were true and good. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Then she was at the window again, staring into the blank wall of fog. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Actually, mine’s not blank at all, but I really can’t tell him how beautiful his eyes are. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She was met with shrugs and blank looks. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She ducks into the room, her masked face blank, her body betraying a nervous energy. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The Scholar tapped one, and the screen became blank. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what it all means,” Papá said with a blank look on his face, “but I am happy for you.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He stared ahead at the Crown Prince, his face blank again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I said, “A dead horse fell out of the sky and landed on me. It broke my back. It’s why I blank out, have seizures. Cade calls it ‘doing my thing.’ 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Once again, she noticed the many empty houses, the blank windows, the dilapidated doors. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I open my backpack and reach for a blank card. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the blank wall: it seemed a sky thick with ascending stars,—every one lit me to a purpose or delight. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Let’s go,” she says, her face blank, her eyes dead. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Which of her four girls could fill in the blank of how they were to behave at the restaurant with the Fannings? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The space next to my name is blank. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Their eyes blank, their ghost bodies wander about. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Their faces were blank; they showed no emotion, but their eyes looked pale with sorrow. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z With a blank face she said, “That’s amazing, because you know there’s no more Affirmative Action.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Ekon’s mind went frighteningly blank for a few seconds before the memorized words tumbled from his mouth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z After a blank, I found that I was lying unbound, on the floor, in the same place, with my head on some one’s knee. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Mr. White reached out and grabbed Horace by the chin, trying to force him to look right into his horrible blank eyes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z My mind was blank, as though I had just begun to live. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I have always hated the emptiness that winter brings, the blank landscape and the stark difference between sky and ground, the way it transforms trees into skeletons and the city into a wasteland. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I pretend to be nudged awake by Aliya in front of this blank building. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Adam opened his eyes, and they were blank like a sleepwalker’s eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I’ve typed the email address into my phone already, but my message is blank. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Evan said, pointing at the blank foam core and the bags of untouched art supplies. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Whatever your initial thoughts, you stood up with a blank expression. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Sierra pulled a blank sheet of paper from her bag. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z His head was thrown back a little, and because of the angle at which he was sitting, his spectacles caught the light and presented to Winston two blank discs instead of eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I look at the blank page in front of me. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z An online metronome, guitar tuner, blank sheet music, music theory lessons, and music converters are all available at 8notes.com. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I would smile and put the folded paper in my pocket, pretending that the blank paper was a special note she had written to me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She stood there saying nothing, one hand behind her back, her face tight and blank, while I pulled the sleeping bag up over me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Because usually, when you forget how something went, you turn to someone and go, Remember that time we...And they remember it, and they help you fill in the blanks. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It felt like a blank piece of paper before you draw on it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Each visit, the totem had a new carving, but Edwin always seemed to focus on the blank space at the bottom of the pole, although he made no comment. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z His face looked blank for a second, then he laughed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to help you carve the blank space on your totem, the space you saved for your dance of anger.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I knew I had to do something, call someone, but my mind was suddenly blank and I couldn’t think what it was I needed to do. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z After I get mad about my blanking out, I get depressed. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I don’t have a blank card, so I remove Good-bye. from Jason’s book and draw on the back. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor on which he lay seemed to be white, neither warm nor cold, but simply there, a flat, blank something on which to be. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She stood staring at him from the doorway, her eyes blinking, her expression a total blank, like he had just spoken to her in a foreign language. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Wolf was waiting for him with the others, his face blank. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Seeing my blank face, my father speaks in broken Spanish, choppy and slow. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On most nights, the people stayed at the site long after this gendarme had gone and told stories to one another beneath the big blank screen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Calvin says, “Hmm. Well. Okay then. Don’t let that blank wall stop you, Mason. Have at it.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The world she was walking through was a pale nothingness, like a blank sheet of paper or an enormous, empty white room. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “Kind of. I mean, not exactly. But Ms. Holly pushed me to start composing, and she gave me blank sheet music last year. I still have it.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I pulled out my journal and opened it to the first blank page. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Suddenly she reported with a blank face that she was leaving school. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a little bit of space left in my duffel, so I take some rolls of washi tape and a blank journal I got in Paris last summer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z In large scrawled letters on the blank side of a cardboard beer coaster, it’s written. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z So, after our game against Moreno Valley, I blanked out while standing under a flow of steaming water in the boys’ locker-room showers. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I do what John says and keep my chin up, my eyes blank. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He had reached the largest gap of all, and he stood surveying it with his blank, red eyes, as though he could see people standing there. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I just think maybe you deserve a day off to be as blank and closed as you want. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I repeated in my head, over and over, a command for my atoms to stay here, to not blank out. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z This suggests that a long, unbroken string of blank answers was broken not by the student but by the teacher. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z After ten minutes or so, it stopped, pulling toward what looked like a blank wall. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z After he set up both of them, the thin fellow laid the book on the desk, opened it to a blank page, and perched on the rickety stool. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked her a question in English and she gave me a blank stare. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I am,” Ash answered, schooling her face into a blank expression so no one might read the tension within her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought I could be dying from a bullet wound and Joan would still stare through me with her blank eyes, expecting me to ask for a cup of coffee and a sandwich. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z My mom’s got a couple of unopened blank canvases leaning against their doorframe. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Normally, I would be nervous and my mind would go blank, but he just has this relaxing way. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “What am I supposed to do with a blank page, Abuelo?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The last quarter of the pages were blank, and she realized they must be Mona’s own records. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For a long, long moment, I went blank. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Edna’s face was a blank picture of bewilderment, which she never thought of disguising. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z As Rasheed watched with anticipation, the way people wait the simple tricks of street magicians, Zalmai pulled on the TV’s wire, pushed the buttons, pressed his palms to the blank screen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Pet stayed silent, its face blank, and she tried to explain more. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Then look at the blank page of my sketch pad. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I freeze as my pencil hovers over number 15, looking from the blank columns and rows on my spreadsheet back down to “Complete dosage table for diabetes.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Pauley nodded as though the word filled in every blank answer on the scorecard. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Unfinished homework lay strewn on my blankets, still there from the night before, when I’d fallen asleep staring at the blank pages. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And he shot a bolt at each of the three blank walls and the vacuum hissed out at him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, I thought her blank expression was the result of surprise, but after it didn’t go away for a long while, I knew that it wasn’t. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Billy had heard that one man in each firing squad was customarily given a rifle loaded with blank cartridge. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Unfortunately my mind went blank, and I could not think of a single thing I knew for sure Plotinus had written. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He is expressionless, his mouth in a firm line, his stare blank. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A huge television screen, blank but glowing softly, occupies one wall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z His face was blank, and he shook his head as if he didn’t know what was going on. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Finally we rowed past the breakwater and into the great blank open, and the glassy surface of the harbor gave way to little waves that chopped at the sides of our boats. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The fact was that even though he knew the diary was blank, he kept absentmindedly picking it up and turning the pages, as though it were a story he wanted to finish. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The unanswered questions, the blank stares, the silence, it was all too painful. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She stared in disbelief at the blank paper. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I looked down and opened my blank notebook to a random page, hoping the action would inspire an end to the conversation. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Then Etch A Sketch brain hits me and I go blank. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The blank space on the screen stretched taller and wider, into infinity. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z When he thought of that his mind closed down like a blank gray wall, not letting him see. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes sees the face of her unborn child, pale and blank as an egg, buoyed by the fountain waters. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Black windows pierced the flat blank cliffs of white, occasionally flashing a reflection of the moon as the canoe floated by. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I did not know; I could not answer; I could not think; my mind had suddenly gone blank. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He tore out a blank page so that he might sketch Norfolk and its defenses for his friends. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Isannah stared at him, her beautiful, soft, brown eyes so blank she looked almost blind. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I flip through the pages in my notebook, and half of them are blank. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z He can tell me what happened, or what didn’t happen; he might be able to fill in some of the blanks at least. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Eject the blank cartridge from Peeta’s, load it with a real one, and arm Pollux. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z His efforts succeeded: in December Eisenhower ordered that a “blank wall” be placed between the physicist and all classified or sensitive government information, pending further investigation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He looks around my tiny room, taking in the unmade bed, the clothes, both clean and dirty, piled on my desk chair, the blank walls, the cheap furniture. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them was the test which the New York woman was in the process of giving us—not the embarrassing personal questions, but the business of circling numbers, spelling, and filling in blanks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Rachel was so fast; I had to figure out a way to stop her, but my mind was blank. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It’s spray-painted in red on the blank expanse of wall above the staircase leading to the second story—that large X with each arm continued at a right angle. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z My God, the screen just went blank after reading “Situation Normal”! • parentheses. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the walls are blank, but there’s a sign for each grade. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z And the man did, with the blank look of someone whose skull had just been cracked open and exposed to freezing air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Dad’s face goes completely blank, so I know he’s really angry now. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Idea? What idea?” asked Nick, and he tried to make his eyes as blank as possible. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The space for father’s name, of course, was left blank, but the clerk had assured her that they’d be able to find the correct document even without it, that the certificates were public record. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For monotonous months I had circled the mail on the hall table like a buzzard, poking through endless boring letters and bills before turning away each day in blank disappointment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Nice of Tariq to get mowed down just about smack in front of a big blank wall. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Finn stared at his own blank computer screen, the picture of the unknown computer programmers seeming to taunt him about everything he didn’t know, everything he was useless at helping the other kids find out. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I look at a stack of books on the table and try to think of something witty, but my mind is blank. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Again came the blank of a pause: the clock struck eight strokes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His motions were precise, his face blank, his eyes far away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Its blank face had never looked so unnatural, so terrifying. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Each time he asked himself that question his mind hit a blank wall and he stopped thinking. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Annabel was scowling, and two seats over, Liana Brock was making her face go blank, as if she hadn’t seen anything, which was totally impossible. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This main wall, some twenty-four feet high, is punctuated by twenty-one distinctive wall towers but is otherwise as blank as a cop’s face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody nearby wore blank expressions except the baby and mother. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The light had retreated at the insistence of the darkness—a scrap of cloud lidding the blank eye of the moon—and Bone Gap was still. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I signed the form and watched as he filled in the blanks. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z "Then I'll just have to fill in the blanks myself," he says, and moves in to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They sat on the floor with blank looks on their faces, exhausted, or they loaded syringes with drugs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice was distant, his eyes having strayed to a certain blank spot in the woods. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She sat with her knees pressed together, her eyes focused on the pile of newspapers on the center table, her face blank. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Wendy’s middle name. I left it blank. I knew someday I would find you. She’s been waiting four years for a middle name. I want you to give it to her.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The statue tilted its head, looking at us with blank metal eyes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z His gray-blue eyes locked onto his father’s face, suddenly blank and expressionless, like stone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All I could do was try to blank Gary Drake out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Even though Fred and I started the research together, the white shark page was blank when he died. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I did not want to suffer the embarrassment of blanking out in broad daylight, nearly naked as I was, on the grass of my front yard. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The young submariner was sinking into blank white. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The ceiling screens are not Earth’s sky, only a blank field. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I took note of the blank expression on his face. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z And hiding behind his glasses, Nick kept his eyes wide and blank. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were three headings with blanks after them: Elementary Schools, High Schools, and Colleges. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry’s face became blank, reddened, and its scar leaped into prominence. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They hid their hatred behind sullen looks and faces blank as slate, yet he could feel it all the same. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I shouldered someone else to the side and gunned it for Vinny with such ferocity, my whole mind went blank, like a flash of lightning ignited behind my eyes. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I sat up, heart pounding, slapping at the blank wall for the light switch until the terrible realization dawned on me that I was not in my own room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Zu flipped the flimsy notebook open to a blank page and scribbled something down. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The second one seemed to stop about five feet away in a blank wall. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But I was so mad my mind went blank. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The verso of the flute parts are all blank so I have paper in abundance again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z At Warings, Hooper slept, flat on his belly, his mind blank, but on the floor below, his father moved and tossed, excited by dreams. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z My actual moment of glory is a blank in my memory. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He might have been handsome had his features been less set, or his eyes, behind the glasses, less expressionless and blank. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He turned to the first blank page and, after reaching up to grab a pen off his desk, drew a picture of a woodpecker eating a hamburger. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z There’s a glass counter at the side with lots of different piercings for sale, and some rubber models of blank mannequin faces with silver studs in the ears, nostrils, eyebrows, and lips. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Soon we are sitting up once more with the rigid tenseness of blank anticipation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw him kiss her on the cheek, and she sighed and kept her face blank. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “I met him once when Dad took me in to work with him. He was an Auror — one of the best... a Dark wizard catcher,” he added, seeing Harry’s blank look. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “This is the history of your magic, Amari. Completely blank. As if the magic truly began with you. Fascinating.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He memorized his words and rehearsed them carefully, to the point where he wouldn’t actually need the teleprompter unless his nerves got triggered and his mind went blank. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z To guarantee his safety, Guiteau wrote a message on the back of a blank telegram form. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z To just believe it lets me fill in all the blanks. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One contains dozens of blank notebooks and unopened jars of ink. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He taps the screen again, and the picture of my DNA disappears, so the screen is blank, just glass. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Dimple wondered if she looked as blank as she felt. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He fumbled with that for a moment, remembered how to turn it on, then looked at the stack of blank paper beside it and turned it off again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “They’re not smart enough to talk. See how blank their eyes are.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Harry stared at the blank blackboard as though fascinated by it, but not really seeing it at all. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Midway through the showing, the screen went blank, light flooded the theater, and a man hurried onto the stage. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Harry looked over at the Slytherin table and saw a horrible ghost sitting there, with blank staring eyes, a gaunt face, and robes stained with silver blood. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I keep my Noise as blank as I can but the world’s closing up in folds of light and shimmer so there’s no chance of that. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Like blank checks with lots of numbers to the left of the decimal point. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Others, seeing a Specter making for them, so strange and blank and greedy, raised their guns and fired, but of course with no effect. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The pages were blank, excepting for a single column of words down the middle. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the gunner’s face full in the light, his mouth curled into a leering grin, his eyes depthless and blank. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z But right now the world is caught in that small blank space in which no one has yet heard the news. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The closest ones turned and stared at him with blank eyes, as if waiting for further orders. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When I booted it up, the screen was completely blank, save for one word. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But some figures stood alone, isolated by blank space like tents pitched on winter slopes or lampposts on white roads. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I grabbed the pen that was hanging on a string next to the sign-up sheet and wrote my name on a blank line. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I really want to write a poem about all that, but right when I start to, my pencil freezes, and my page stays blank. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z When he faltered, his parents filled in the blanks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I glanced back at the blank pages next to me. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z One way to sum up the new scholarship is to say that it has begun, at last, to fill in one of the biggest blanks in history: the Western Hemisphere before 1492. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The consensus was that personality was primarily determined by environment, each child a blank slate to be written on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When she had told him she was leaving the country, a week after their kiss at the movies, he looked as blank as an ironing board. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z After that he kept his mind fairly blank over the eighteen miles to Dona Luz. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The page was blank and on it, with a fountain pen whose cap he ceremoniously unscrewed, he wrote his name and address. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Her tears had been replaced by a cold, blank face and a set jaw. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then my father shouted, “Look!” and I raised my head to see a towering mountain of rock emerge from the blank canvas before us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z And Olive’s face was as blank as a peeled potato. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Trying to make it look casual, Ellsberg dropped a blank piece of paper over the “Top Secret” stamps on the page he’d been about to copy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At the last minute, I go more mature and buy her a blank card with the Brooklyn Bridge on the cover. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Thomas,” she suggested, “you and I? We’re the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their eyes weren’t blank or dead, their bodies weren’t quite at rest. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He fumbled for more but came up blank. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I stare, back and forth, at the reviving land, my blank page. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z That blank look would remain on his face until Father Benedict ended the sermon, until it was time for communion. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The blank white screen reminded Hugo of a brand- new piece of paper, and he loved the wonderful whirring sound from the projector that filled the theater. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Her mother smiled, but her eyes were blank white. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I shook my head and watched him disappear for a moment and return with a companion, a short, scholarly looking man who stared at me with a blank expression. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure these were very blank days for the bodies I was in, because they were extraordinarily blank days for me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z You’ve never seen so many kids staring at a blank wall. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I look away from her, from her eyes and face, blank and quiet as ever. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They shot out from under him as the hand tightened its grip and pulled him upright, until he was staring into the cold, blank eyes of Jordan McCreevey. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z None of his “leads” had led anywhere, except, perhaps, down a blind alley toward the blankest of walls. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I wind up leaving the last three answers blank. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I could wish for a storm, but the sky is an insolent blank, pale, watery blue. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z This, it is worth emphasizing, is one of the great blank spots in pesticide research everywhere. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I put a blank disc into the laptop and hit the button to burn the Save Dad from His Funk playlist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z My journal is still a whole lot of blank pages and some random observations that don’t seem all that interesting. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z She knew the answer before her fingers carved it into the blank: 48 hours, she wrote. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She could paint over my hair, blank out my features, make my face no more than a plate for apples, grapes, plums, pears, lemons. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Luke must have given Jen a particularly blank look, because she explained it. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Milkman lay quietly in the sunlight, his mind a blank, his lungs craving smoke. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Each one had eyes fashioned of round or oblong disks of abalone shell, but the rest of their faces were blank. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z His face is blank; he doesn’t even protest. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Later, when I came back together Julia told me that I had blanked out for about eighty-four-thousand miles—seventy minutes or so. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z On Wednesday morning the minivan is gone from the driveway next door, so I busy myself collecting words and phrases for Jason in the blank spaces of my sketchbook. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was not with the despair with which he had looked at her over their blank and empty fields. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z My hands hadn’t stopped shaking from earlier, and every time I tried shutting my eyes all I could see were the white coat’s blank ones staring right back into mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I take a blank sheet of paper and scrawl Madoc on one side, then seal the other with wax. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z With his blank eyes he seemed to be looking backward in time. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unknown to the audience, the paper was blank. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Valley put on a blank stare, looking far into the distance. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I knew now why I had bought that picture post-card as a child, it was a premonition, a blank step into the future. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The windows of the reading room were bright and blank; bookshelves, empty carrels, not a soul. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z So he worked from the chair, not rising, and every now and then he rested his head in his hands and closed his eyes and blanked the brain, and so rested. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was very pale, the creases deeper than ever, and his eyes looked blank and sunken. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And in the silence, of course, you can hear a pin drop. draw a blank. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, I think, but I keep my face blank. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I drew a big blank, probably due to my ignorance about Mary, who never got much attention at our church. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He gazed back at her, his face as blank as uncarved stone. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They were all so still, so speechless and frozen, their expressions blank with shock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When I think about the future, all I see is a blank—and darkness. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Judging by the wires connected to their heads, and their blank eyes, they are observing the simulation. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He had a strange skimpy-looking little beard and his eyes were deep set and as blank as an empty well. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind is as blank as a cloudless sky. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The anticipation there gave way to blank incomprehension and then to pure, unadulterated rage. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Mom glances at the blank screen of her pager, hoping it will go off. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “Exactly—he’s the best!” said Uncle Vernon, pointing at the blank television screen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z So I turn to the first blank page and pick up the pencil again. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I read them again and again, and then, on the first blank line, I sign my name and write: "Your mountain is waiting. So.. .get on your way!" All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Inside the Waystone, the light fell across Chronicler’s face and touched a beginning there, a blank page waiting the first words of a story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And although every building and every door he had seen so far had been labeled, this staircase was blank. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “This is all just junk,” Tucker grumbled, picking up a stack of blank printer paper. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z They practiced the Offenbach and the Barber and Mozart’s Twenty-fifth with blank faces. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Above me, the sky is blank and dark, the moon shielded by clouds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “It’s hard to say. Maybe I was mistaken about them being there in my living room. I can’t account for anything I see when I start blanking out,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I unfold it now, smoothing it out, and look at all the blank days, too many to count, that I didn’t mark off because these were days I had with Finch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She arranged her writing supplies on the desktop and opened her leather-bound journal to a blank page. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A series of blank rectangles had been drawn beside each name which, Leon explained, would be filled in as each student sold his quota of chocolates. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom kept her face blank and her voice steady. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z For a moment Meggie was relieved that he hadn't really meant a cage, although the door in the blank wall looked anything but inviting. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When I looked at it more closely, I realized it wasn’t just a stack of letters—there were also photographs, an old CD, and blank stationery. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I stared into his blank eyes, willing him to believe me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He was standing there holding his mug of beer, his face blank. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She swung around in her chair, annoyed at the interruption, but when she saw it was Joey, her mind went almost blank for a moment. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Many levels have been left blank for users to input their own information—words, sentences, phone numbers, even pictures. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Half an hour, perhaps a bit more—he kept looking at his watch once he was conscious but it was still blank—and he came suddenly awake. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The scorn and suspicion were gone from the alchemist's face, leaving him blank. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I stared at the blank page, closed my eyes, opened them again, and began to write. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Doc’s usually sunny, smiling face was blank as a chalkboard. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He turned it once, flashing the text, then ran his hand over it, and showed Helvar the seemingly blank page. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Street signs, half of which had turned a blank and blistered white from sun exposure, were little help. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I flip through the pages until I find the first blank spot where I can write my name and the date and a comment. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Aside from her name, the paper was blank. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The girl soccer players held their homemade signs with the blank side facing out, as they awaited directions from Beatrice. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave her a look full of blank ferocity and gurgled in his throat. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Soon-Lee beelines to the printer they were at, still humming as it prints out a blank page that says seven of seven. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Before Eddie’s death, the cover of his brown leather journal had always been blank. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Rachel’s brow furrowed, but her eyes were clear, not the dead, blank eyes of her arrival. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z If only I could make my mind a blank. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He scrutinized his parishioners’ blank faces for signs that they were on the edge of their seats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If I don't think about it I know, but if I have to think about it quick my mind goes blank. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z So I push the blank cards aside and draw pictures for the others. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “You do have big blanks, don’t you? Well, Blue Goo—as the hospital calls it—is, well, blue.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z A hundred muskets fired at me, point blank. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She looked at the blank space, and what it offered. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They sat at the backs of their cages, passive and blank faced. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry turned the parchment over and looked at the back, hoping to see something else, but it was blank. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I checked his profile automatically—it was practically a reflex—but I was surprised to find that he’d left it blank. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The city’s fortress walls were so plain, so blank, and then he would go through a gate—and everywhere, Werfel thought joyously, everywhere there was life. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Nothing, basically,” Mapper said, holding up an almost blank sheet of paper. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He pulled up a blank page with colored squares lining the side. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z When a navigator knows his coordinates—the degree of latitude and degree of longitude he is at—he knows where on the wide, blank ocean he is. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Pick it up and stare at the blank paper, and as I stare, words start falling across the paper. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There are only two pages—a table of contents followed by a blank page. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z If I suck at homework when I have the internet and textbooks at my disposal, then I’m going to completely fail when it’s just me and the blank page. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I felt blank and numb and far away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I wanted to change the subject, but for the moment my mind was a blank. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Shifting the satchel to block the view in case Ma's eyes open, I turn to a blank page. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For Anise, it’s a smile that barely turns up the corners of her lips, so it’s more like a blank stare. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Why? someone had scrawled in a blank space no advertiser had rented. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I hand him the blank absentee card, and he scribbles his signature on it, and I slip it into my backpack before I go to bed. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He wrote down “pneumonia” in the blank after “Cause of death.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His mind became a blank and he did not move. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Chris was trying to remove a blank, sealed envelope from his bathrobe pocket. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He started the whole world over: blank canvas and endless tubes of paint. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He traced the blank circle at his wrist. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The converter attachment, which had cost them one hundred dollars, automatically supplied her name whenever the announcer addressed his anonymous audience, leaving a blank where the proper syllables could be filled in. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to get one that said With Sympathy, for Jimmy’s lost bank, but Annemarie said we should pick something that was blank inside. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z The back of the paper, which they all knew had been clean and blank when they had left Egypt the night before, was now covered with writing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Kainene looked Chief Okonji right in the eyes, with that stare that was so expressionless, so blank, that it was almost hostile. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He looked at me with a blank, childish expression. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z That had worked so beautifully at Hollywood Gardens—the whole staff had gone totally ape when suddenly one day she began turning in blank sheets of paper. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z But when they heard the first radio announcement he simply said, “Excellent, excellent,” and later he watched the dancing neighbors with a blank expression. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was marble white and so still that when he spoke, it was a shock to see that anyone lived behind the blank eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Her face still has no kinda expression at all, just blank as a stone as she stands by the fire and eats. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Pearl gave her a calculated blank stare, but Lexie continued anyway. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He wiped the Marauder’s Map blank again, then set off at a run. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z This blank Scene regarded, productive of no Intelligence, we marched onward. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Mine completely blanked out. Honest—I didn’t hear you call. Not once.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Maria obtained a blank master book made of sturdy paper from the Labadist press. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Now alone in the house, I look for Grandma and find her sitting on the sofa, a blank expression on her face. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z As she filled out the registration blank, her pen hovered over the question of previous education. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Without asking a single question, the Mother Superior invited Anatole and me to spend our last night together in my little blank room. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I paste on a blank look, focus on one wall, and pretend their questions are too hard for me to understand. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z They had Worsley’s compass and an outline map of South Georgia that showed the coastline in detail and a complete blank in the interior of the island. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Moss’s memory filled in the blanks: Javier was at the top of those steps. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I flipped to the next blank page of his little book and wrote, Please marry me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Certainly, all the guards we passed in the halls had adopted blank, tough expressions that betrayed no weakness or curiosity, no disgust or delight. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My brain goes blank like an Etch A Sketch turned upside down and shaken. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z I drank my cold tea, still blurred and stupid from my short heavy sleep, and stared at the blank wall in front of me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On the blank television screen the children could suddenly see their reflections. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I spent the rest of the period staring at a blank piece of paper, trying to sort out what had happened. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked why, she pointed to the blank space and said, “The devil was standing right there.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They stole two cashboxes containing 40 guilders, blank checkbooks and, worst of all, coupons for 330 pounds of sugar, our entire allotment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Tears streaked his cheeks, and his eyes were blank, as though she weren’t there at all. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the sentence-completion test, children were asked to fill in words that had been left blank. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a lab assignment, and he’s come up blank. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Its first owner had planned to study it with care, perhaps to write a refutation or a commentary, for it was bound with alternate blank pages on which notes could be made. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It’s not you,” I repeated back, a blank look on my face. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z And I don’t care that Ms. Rochambeau raises her eyebrows when she picks up my worksheet and it’s blank. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Every day the teacher arrived and told her students to put a blank piece of paper on their desks. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Same as last week’s—all blank, except at the top, where Mrs. Rouse had written, “What happened to all your great reading?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “How will you manage? The pass is blank. It will need to be filled out and also stamped officially for you to board. They will have a complete manifest.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Royal stared in blank hostility, before, seeming to remember Gabriel’s face, he took a burning cigarette from between his lips, and said, with pained politeness: “How-de-do, sir.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Kevin stared at the blank TV screen, then turned away with a bitter laugh. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Deborah and I stared at the choir behind him, our faces blank, pretending not to see. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Her occupation, suspended by Mr. Rochester’s announcement, seemed now forgotten: her eyes, fixed on the blank wall opposite, expressed the surprise of a quiet mind stirred by unwonted tidings. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Capricorn rose from his chair, his face still as cold and blank as if nothing worth getting excited about had happened, and clapped his ringed hands graciously. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In the days that followed Edwin’s surprise visit, Cole spent long periods standing beside the totem log, staring down at the blank space still at the bottom. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A few old men sat on the benches underneath the bare trees, looking dourly toward the blank gray sky overhead. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z With four other kids to think about, there wasn’t going to be a blank check from my parents for my college tuition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The space next to my name is blank—I haven’t gotten an opponent yet. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But on the side where the fortune would go, there was just a line drawing of a rose—otherwise, it was totally blank. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Moonlight fell on the pages and he turned them until he came to a blank one. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He held his hand about fourteen inches off the ground and was dumbfounded by my blank look. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But there was a practiced quality to his expression now, an intense concentration to keep his face blank. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I put my headphones back on and grabbed a blank sheet of paper. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z And later, when she tried to explain to Glerk what had happened, she drew a blank. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She tried to make her mind a blank white canvas, but as hard as she tried, she couldn’t keep the canvas blank. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Up to now our bedroom, with its blank walls, was very bare. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Then yours is mauve,” I said, writing it in the blank. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “You want to come out and play?” she says, in her neutral voice that is at the same time blank and unsoft, like glazed paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I see a blank page, and I can’t leave it like that. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I sit on the edge of the bathtub, gazing at the blank towels. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He had scored a superb 99 on the fill-in-the blank worksheet on cakes and frostings, not to mention a 96 on his poultry worksheet. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The challenger went over backwards in sudden collapse, with nothing on his face but blank, blank surprise. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z This blank, stealthy dream was of a different nature. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “The air is just blank in America,” I said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “Yeah. You know, I think death is shallower now. It used to be a hole you fell into and kept falling. Now it’s just a blank.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He is a blank—a sleepwalker waking up. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I didn’t really have the energy to turn it on, so I just stared at the blank screen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z He climbed into the tub as soon as the water got hot, and he sat and watched with a curiously blank look on his face as the water overtook him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He was staring intently at the Sea King, who was looking back at him, the brow above his blank eyes creased in a cavernous fold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z We stare at one another, keeping our faces blank, apathetic. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned to Nadia and said, "Ginger's bark will do very well. Besides, she looks a lot like Sandy except that her eyeballs aren't blank." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z When the server set down our fortune cookies at the end of the meal, mine was blank. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Even though we’re blocking the sidewalk and people have to step on the grass to go around us, I take a blank card from my pocket and write ‘more than words’ across the top. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He lifted his hand and opened his eyelids; gazed blank, and with a straining effort, on the sky, and toward the amphitheatre of trees: one saw that all to him was void darkness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z So I was nearly hysterical with pain when I told my parents and sister about blanking out, and what I’d been doing in the canyon after midnight. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I looked at Travis for guidance, but his face was blank. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She walked down the hallway, then turned into the drawing room, steady step by steady step, pretending that she could not feel the other mother’s blank black eyes on her back. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z She stared at him in blank resentment for a moment and then tossed her head back and roared appreciatively with hearty laughter. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Just big wide fields of grass and a blank blue sky. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The wall breaks down and suddenly there is a red- haired girl with her arms outstretched to me—her face is a blank mask. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Through gardens hushed, past vacant houses we marched, and each blank window filled us with alarms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And the blanks have been filled in with different colors of chalk, smudged and half melted from the rain and snow, in all different handwriting. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Dicey lay on her back with her arms under her head, staring at the blank, black ceiling. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, separated from the rest of the scribbles by a few blank pages, like he’d wanted to remember these things specifically, were short one- or two-sentence declarations, marked with the dates they’d been written. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The statue glared at her with its blank white eyes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I also saw an easel in the corner, with a blank canvas on it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z If only they would not stare at me like that with dull blank faces. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A wall of wavering, writhing grey lay blank across the path, hiding all that lay behind it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She stops herself in time, but everyone else in the room fills in the blank: idiot! You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Once the wind picked up she would be moving again, but for now there was only the blank and endless sea. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It’s so blank and empty, I can’t tell what he might be thinking or feeling. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z His face, illuminated by the lights, is blank, like someone vacuumed away all his personality, leaving only a mask. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind went blank as I tried to think of a way to ask him for the details of the story I’d overheard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Everyone was nodding their heads to music, or had their eyes just blank with the feedcast. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I look down again, I see that the page is still blank. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Well, we have made a start and drawn a blank,” observed M. Bouc. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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