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Blank in sentence

218 examples of Blank in a sentence

What are we going to put in that blank?
So maybe physics can fill this blank, and indeed, since about the late 1960s or around 1970, physicists have purported to give a purely scientific explanation of how a universe like ours could have popped into existence out of sheer nothingness, a quantum fluctuation out of the void.
And this is when her face turned blank, and she said to me, "I have no future.
Every blank space was covered with the portraits of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, like everywhere else in North Korea.
Imagine a blank page with one horizontal line splitting it in half.
It was taken using the Hubble Space Telescope, and by pointing the telescope at what was previously a blank region of sky, before the launch of Hubble.
If you went to the highest level of the U.S. government now and said, "Talk to me about cyber, about neuroscience, about the things that are going to change the world of tomorrow," you'd get a blank stare.
And we're pretty lucky because here in the South, we're still blessed with a relatively blank canvas that we can fill with the most fanciful adventures and incredible experiences.
Good or bad, I was a blank canvas onto which different versions of myself were projected.
Mendeleev could predict all of these things simply from where the blank spot was, and his understanding of how the elements surrounding it behave.
And floaters are particularly noticeable when you are looking at a uniform bright surface, like a blank computer screen, snow, or a clear sky, where the consistency of the background makes them easier to distinguish.
Throughout the history of mankind, three little words have sent poets to the blank page, philosophers to the Agora, and seekers to the oracles: "Who am I?" From the ancient Greek aphorism inscribed on the Temple of Apollo, "Know thyself," to The Who's rock anthem, "Who Are You?" philosophers, psychologists, academics, scientists, artists, theologians and politicians have all tackled the subject of identity.
I have always wanted to travel back in time to an era where maps were mostly blank or they read, "There be dragons."
The teacher will look at her screen, and she'll see a blank text editor.
Now, there's a blank, so there's no bullet.
So you take 2 corner cubes from the red cube and paint the 3 blank faces of 1 purple, and the 3 blank faces of the other green.
You don't have to start with a blank canvas or with white noise.
But between me and the summit lay a blank slab of granite.
But apart from having one meaning, silence becomes a blank canvas upon which the viewer is invited to the paint their own thoughts.
If you can get a mouse that is functional, then you can see, is the new brain a blank slate?
It's a big blank sheet on our planet.
Notice where the blank is.
If we move that blank one space over "no where" becomes "now here," the exact opposite meaning, just by shifting the blank one space over.
I didn't fill in that blank.
We had drawn a blank, and it wasn't just Iraq and Afghanistan.
At that point, Professor Shafir responded with a blank look.
That person sitting right next to you might have the most idiosyncratic inner life, but you don't have a clue because we're all wearing the same blank expression all the time.
My mind went blank and couldn't think; it was paralyzed.
They were these blank profiles who were too afraid to show their faces after what they had told me.
The worst idea in all of psychology is the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth.
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