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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
blank
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blank cheque (=signed but without the amount written on it)
▪ I wasn't sure how much the tickets would be so I gave her a blank cheque.
a blank page (=with nothing on it)
▪ There were a couple of blank pages at the back of the book.
a blank space (=on a page, wall etc)
▪ Write your refund request in the blank space on Line 9.
a blank stare (=showing no emotion, understanding, or interest)
▪ Mention his name, and you get mostly blank stares.
a blank/vacant expression (=one that shows no emotion, understanding, or interest)
▪ The blank expression on Bobbie’s face gave way to anger.
blank cheque
blank tape
▪ Bring me a blank tape and I’ll record it for you.
blank verse
blank/impassive (=showing no emotion or thoughts)
▪ What was she really thinking behind that blank face?
clean/blank sheet of paper (=one with no writing on it)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
check
▪ Outside, on the front lawn hoisted atop a wooden flagpole, an eternal blank check waves bravely in the breeze.
▪ But the public consensus for a Pentagon blank check collapsed with the Cold War.
▪ But I want to know where my party is going before I give it a blank check.
cheque
▪ And here ... sign this blank cheque for what you owe.
▪ There will be no blank cheque for missile defence.
▪ He was effectively granted a blank cheque to conduct a war without Congressional authorization for up to 90 days.
expression
▪ All seven of her faces wear a blank expression.
▪ Through all the speeches and songs, she stood under a tree, her blank expression never changing.
▪ That last night, when the returns started coming in, he had this blank expression on his face.
face
▪ That face was not the blank face that Cardiff had expected.
▪ I did so when the under-30 crowd gave me blank faces at my casual reference to High Noon.
▪ Behind his blank face, Gabriel was playing the Wishing Game.
▪ The children opened too-large mouths in otherwise blank faces.
▪ The blank face will serve the same purpose as old style screens.
▪ I presented a blank face to the outside world.
▪ There's 9,000 shivering punters in here, 7,500 of which have blank faces.
▪ As a sleeping princess, her blank face and torso exaggerate rather than diminish the beauty of her preternaturally leggy dancing.
line
▪ Leave blank lines between paragraphs and make frequent use of headings to hold the reader's interest.
▪ Press Enter once more to insert a blank line.
▪ Repeatedly doing this will move the cursor through all of the blank lines until it reaches the maximum.
▪ Press Enter twice-once to end the salutation, a second time to insert a blank line. 9.
▪ The deleted line appears at the top of the list, followed by a blank line. 10.
▪ Insert three blank lines between the date and the body of the letter.
▪ You press the Enter key to begin a new paragraph or to insert blank lines in the text.
▪ Legal documents, for example, often require line numbers, even on blank lines.
look
▪ Her head sank on to her chin and a kind of blank look misted over her eyes.
▪ There were pauses and blank looks.
▪ If you ask a user what sort of system he wants you will be met with a blank look.
page
▪ Like an author, Eloise would write what she chose on the blank page, would turn Jenny into her own creation.
▪ She found black men impossible to draw or to paint; she could not bear to trace defeat on to blank pages.
▪ Couldn't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page.
▪ Another strategy my children use is to keep their notebooks open to a blank page while reading one of their books.
▪ He'd been staring at the blank page in his typewriter and wondering where he could find the enthusiasm to write.
▪ There are no blank pages in his book.
▪ Just the type of blank page made to suit a man like him.
▪ Pointing to the initial blank page, I ask Tony what the title for his book will be.
paper
▪ I was then told to go away and write down my entire life history on three sheets of blank paper.
▪ Needless to say, all that was left was a blank paper where all his hard work had been.
▪ The figure of Robert Duvall was holding a briefcase; he glanced inside but found nothing but a sheet of blank paper.
▪ Tears come to your eyes as you read the blank paper for what it can tell you.
▪ A labourer howls in the nothingness of the blank paper, which is also the empty, impoverished land.
▪ Karen couldn't see much at that distance; even the paintings on the walls looked like blank paper.
▪ Hold on to all these smells until the evening, when you can deliver them up on to the blank paper.
screen
▪ As you launch the program you're greeted with a friendly main menu rather than a blank screen.
▪ In front of the blank screen, the officer stood scolding.
▪ You turned it on but nothing is happening - blank screen, no whirring noise, no beeps, no flashing lights.
▪ So I faced a blank screen... no preconceptions, restrictions, or restraints.
▪ The smears on the television had gone so she gazed at the reflection of the sunlight on the blank screen instead.
▪ Many who signed on later in the day were turned away with blank screens or error messages.
sheet
▪ We must ensure Brian Wilson's blank sheet of paper is full of good ideas before too long.
▪ Manion put the seven blank sheets of paper and the accompanying envelopes in a file folder and left for lunch.
▪ Inevitably, when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper.
▪ To put it simply, it is difficult to get beyond that first blank sheet of paper.
▪ He still had to put his own words on this blank sheet in front of him.
▪ You will also need blank sheets of paper of the same size, markers, and paper for students.
▪ Nigel was installed in the office with a blank sheet of paper in front of him when Eleanor arrived.
▪ Put the bell picture up on the wall with the blank sheet of paper next to it. 2.
space
▪ Peter Edwards looks at the blank space that now passes for a promotions policy.
▪ Deadwood was just a blank space in the marriage.
▪ Documents must not be handed to drivers or otherwise issued with blank spaces for recording particulars of tare weights or net weights.
▪ In the blank spaces at the bottom of the chart, add other words you need.
▪ On the map it was pretty well blank space, save for the thin blue lines of creeks or marsh drains crisscrossing it.
▪ Even in the worst case, there will still be four blank spaces between columns.
▪ Don't leave a blank space here - no one's life is perfect.
▪ To delete a tab stop, position the cursor in the blank space of the tab area, then press Del.
spot
▪ Have you made a note of some kind that reminds you to research the blank spots further? 4.
stare
▪ Poindexter gave him a blank stare.
▪ But ask them when fund shareholders should sell their funds, and you get a blank stare.
▪ Julie found herself drawn almost hypnotically to the blank stares.
▪ As his eyes adjusted to the dimness he began to feel dominated by the blank stares of the plaster martyrs.
▪ All he got in return was a blank stare and a cloud of fresh cigar smoke.
tape
▪ Buying that blank tape had been a waste, for she knew she would never dare play it back.
▪ Put about ten on a blank tape, then play it once through to your Six.
▪ And the success of the established record industry's campaign for a royalty on blank tape could also contribute.
▪ Using the freezer facility, can I put all my games on blank tapes to load faster?
verse
▪ Coleridge had developed an apparently relaxed, but in fact extremely clever style of blank verse.
wall
▪ A blank wall the height of a house on your right.
▪ I went to the window and looked out on the blank wall.
▪ But there's no sky, no stars, just the opaque blank wall next door.
▪ Behind her is a blank wall or perhaps a sheet tacked up as a makeshift backdrop.
▪ The low vaulted roof stretched for some forty feet until it met the blank wall at the far end.
▪ The goal was another peg, some 30 feet and almost horizontally leftwards across yet another blank wall.
▪ The future is not a blank wall to line up against, but a way to be walked.
▪ You may decide to put a table and a lectern in front of a blank wall.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
draw a blank
▪ I just drew a blank on the last test question.
▪ Once again police investigators have drawn a blank.
▪ But other experiments continue to draw blanks, as two recent papers in Physical Review Letters report.
▪ He used the word discreet and drew a blank.
▪ Maggie had drawn a blank, none of the bodies were of those she was looking for.
▪ No, I draw a blank.
▪ Outside, it is closing time and we have drawn a blank.
▪ Police inquiries so far have drawn a blank.
▪ Ron Wyden, drew a blank when asked where Bosnia was.
▪ Well, we've drawn a blank.
give sb a blank cheque
▪ We cannot let our democracy become a matter of simply giving a bunch of politicians a blank cheque to govern us every five years.
sb's mind goes blank
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a blank expression
▪ a blank sheet of paper
▪ I said hello, and she gave me a blank look.
▪ I want to record the late-night movie. Do we have any blank video cassettes?
▪ I want to tape a show at 9:00. Are there any blank tapes?
▪ Ian stared at the blank sheet of paper in front of him.
▪ Maria could tell by the blank look in my eyes that I didn't understand.
▪ The children's faces were blank with sleepiness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As far as minimum requirements go, you will need to take at least one blank video cassette with you.
▪ Even the television had doors to hide its blank gray screen.
▪ If the field is left blank, a default value will be provided and displayed.
▪ In the blank spaces at the bottom of the chart, add other words you need.
▪ Nigel was installed in the office with a blank sheet of paper in front of him when Eleanor arrived.
▪ Signature block At the end of your letter, leave three lines of blank space for your signature.
▪ Tell them to look immediately at the middle of the blank sheet of paper.
▪ With wide, blank eyes he shuffled towards them.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
point
▪ I refused point blank, but he didn't mind at all.
■ VERB
draw
▪ But other experiments continue to draw blanks, as two recent papers in Physical Review Letters report.
▪ He used the word discreet and drew a blank.
▪ Primary investigations into a suspected outbreak of foot-and-mouth at a nearby farm have drawn a blank.
▪ No, I draw a blank.
▪ Ron Wyden, drew a blank when asked where Bosnia was.
fill
▪ Choose New Card or New Contact and fill in the blanks.
▪ That gave Clinton the opportunity to fill in the partisan blanks, in greatly unflattering terms.
▪ To build these clever applications, you just select from menus or fill in the blanks on forms.
▪ But the Holy Spirit would fill in the blanks.
▪ Concert work fills the blanks in her diary left by the Bastille debacle.
▪ Still, some means had to be found to fill in the blanks.
▪ Does the whole conceptual perspective of the Monitor theory narrow down to a focus on filling in the blanks?
▪ The author then filled in the blanks about how wise, handsome, brave, and team-spirited they were.
fire
▪ I was merely about to fire a blank to frighten off some stray cats.
▪ Other Customs agents have put corruption in the crosshairs only to find they were firing blanks.
▪ The system has previously undergone six months of preliminary tests in the same Redwood City neighborhood, with officers firing blanks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the competition entry blank
▪ We didn't know the guns were firing blanks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alternatively, they could be had ready-printed with blanks in the text for completion by the funeral furnisher.
▪ Choose New Card or New Contact and fill in the blanks.
▪ First a boxwood blank was turned to a cylinder.
▪ Other Customs agents have put corruption in the crosshairs only to find they were firing blanks.
▪ Without being able to read what Black has written, everything is a blank so far.
III.verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
give sb a blank cheque
▪ We cannot let our democracy become a matter of simply giving a bunch of politicians a blank cheque to govern us every five years.
sb's mind goes blank
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I said hello to her in the street, but she just blanked me and carried on walking.
▪ The Whalers blanked the Washington Capitals 2-0.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I leave it all up to Rob as I blank out my mind and hang on to my sanity.
▪ She closed her eyes and rethought them, blanking their memories and recreating them from the emptiness up.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blank

Blank \Blank\, a. [OE. blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, fr. F. blanc, fem. blanche, fr. OHG. blanch shining, bright, white, G. blank; akin to E. blink, cf. also AS. blanc white. ?98. See Blink, and cf. 1st Blanch.]

  1. Of a white or pale color; without color.

    To the blank moon Her office they prescribed.
    --Milton.

  2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

  3. Utterly confounded or discomfited.

    Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank.
    --Milton.

  4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.

  5. Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.

  6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. ``Blank and horror-stricken faces.''
    --C. Kingsley.

    The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness.
    --G. Eliot.

  7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.

    Blank bar (Law), a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in an action of trespass to assign the certain place where the trespass was committed; -- called also common bar.

    Blank cartridge, a cartridge containing no ball.

    Blank deed. See Deed.

    Blank door, or Blank window (Arch.), a depression in a wall of the size of a door or window, either for symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed.

    Blank indorsement (Law), an indorsement which omits the name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is usually made by simply writing the name of the indorser on the back of the bill.

    Blank line (Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats.

    Blank tire (Mech.), a tire without a flange.

    Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind.

    Blank verse. See under Verse.

    Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.

Blank

Blank \Blank\, n.

  1. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.

    I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.
    --Swift.

    From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.
    --Hallam.

    I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank.
    --G. Eliot.

  2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

    In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize.
    --Dryden.

  3. A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.

    The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank.
    --Palfrey.

  4. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.

  5. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.

    Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye.
    --Shak.

  6. Aim; shot; range. [Obs.]

    I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech.
    --Shak.

  7. A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
    --Nares.

  8. (Mech.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

  9. (Dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the ``double blank''; the ``six blank.''

    In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.

Blank

Blank \Blank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanking.] [Cf. 3d Blanch.]

  1. To make void; to annul. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

  2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.]

    Each opposite that blanks the face of joy.
    --Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blank

early 13c., "white, pale, colorless," from Old French blanc "white, shining," from Frankish *blank "white, gleaming," or some other West Germanic source (compare Old Norse blakkr, Old English blanca "white horse;" Old High German blanc, blanch; German blank "shining, bright"), from Proto-Germanic *blangkaz "to shine, dazzle," extended form of PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)).\n

\nMeaning "having empty spaces" evolved c.1400. Sense of "void of expression" (a blank look) is from 1550s. Spanish blanco, Italian bianco are said to be from Germanic. Related: Blankly, blankness.

blank

late 14c. as the name of a small French coin; 1550s as "white space in the center of a target," from the same source as blank (adj.). Meaning "empty space" (in a document, etc.) is from c.1570. Meaning "losing lottery ticket" (1560s) is behind the expression draw a blank. The word has been "for decorum's sake, substituted for a word of execration" [OED] from 1854. From 1896 as short for blank cartridge (itself from 1826).

blank

1540s, "to nonplus, disconcert, shut up;" 1560s, "to frustrate," from blank (adj.). Sports sense of "defeat (another team) without allowing a score" is from 1870. Meaning "to become blank or empty" is from 1955. Related: Blanked; blanking.

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Wiktionary
blank

  1. 1 (context archaic English) White or pale; without colour. 2 Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot. n. 1 A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile. 2 An empty space; a void, as on a paper, or in one's memory. 3 A space to be filled in on a form or template. 4 A paper without marks or characters, or with space left for writing; a ballot, form, contract, etc. that has not yet been filled in. 5 A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. 6 (context archaic English) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. 7 (context engineering English) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. 8 (context dominoes English) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank"; the six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank. 9 The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard. 10 The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. 11 Aim; shot; range. 12 (context chemistry English) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To make void; to erase. 2 (context transitive slang English) To ignore. 3 (context transitive English) To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event. 4 (context intransitive English) To become blank.

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WordNet
blank

  1. adj. of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [syn: clean, white]

  2. void of expression; "a blank stare"

  3. not charged with a bullet; "a blank cartridge"

blank

v. keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning

blank

  1. n. a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" [syn: space]

  2. a substitute for a taboo word; "I hit the blank blank car"

  3. a blank gap or missing part [syn: lacuna]

  4. a piece of material ready to be made into something

  5. a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet [syn: dummy, blank shell]

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Wikipedia
Blank

Blank may refer to:

  • Blank (archaeology), a thick, shaped stone biface for refining into a stone tool
  • Blank (cartridge), a type of gun cartridge
  • Blank (Scrabble), a playing piece in the board game Scrabble
  • Blank (solution), a solution containing no analyte
  • A Planchet or blank, a round metal disk to be struck as a coin
  • Application blank, a space provided for data on a form
  • Key blank, an uncut key
  • About:blank, a Web browser function
Created works
  • Blank Space, a song by Taylor Swift
  • "Blank" (Eyehategod song), a track on the album Take as Needed for Pain
  • Blank (film), a 2009 French film
  • The Blanks, an American a cappella group
  • Blank (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Blank! a short story by Isaac Asimov
Names
  • Blank (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire
  • Blank (surname)
Also "Blanks"
  • Blanks, Louisiana, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Ernests Blanks, a Latvian publicist.
Blank (cartridge)

A blank is a type of cartridge for a firearm that contains gunpowder but no bullet or shot. Blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gunpowder into the cartridge. When fired, the blank makes a flash and an explosive sound (report), the wadding is propelled from the barrel of the gun, and the firearm's action cycles. Blanks are often used for simulation (such as in historical reenactments, theatre and movie special effects), training, for signaling (see starting pistol), and cowboy mounted shooting. Blank cartridges differ from dummy cartridges, which are used for training or function testing firearms; these contain no primer or gunpowder, and are inert.

Specialized blank cartridges are also used for their propellant force in fields as varied as construction, shooting sports, and fishing and general fun.

Blank (solution)

A blank solution is a solution containing little to no analyte of interest, usually used to calibrate instruments such as a colorimeter. According to the EPA, the "primary purpose of blanks is to trace sources of artificially introduced contamination." Different types of blanks are used to identify the source of contamination in the sample. The types of blanks include equipment blank, field blank, trip blank, method blank, and instrument blank.

Blank (comics)

The Blank is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in West Coast Avengers #2 (October 1984) and was created by Roger Stern and Bob Hall.

Blank (film)

Blank is a 2009 French drama, written and directed by Cyril de Gasperis. Its original French title is L'absence.

Blank (horse)

Blank (1740–1770) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He only won one race, but became a very successful sire and was British Champion sire in 1762, 1764 and 1770.

Blank (surname)

Blank is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Amanda Blank, American rapper and singer
  • Arthur Blank, American businessman and a co-founder of Home Depot
  • Barbie Blank (born 1987), American model and professional wrestling valet better known as Kelly Kelly
  • Boris Blank (musician) (born 1952), Swiss musician
  • Hanne Blank (born 1969), American historian
  • Harrod Blank (born 1963), American documentary filmmaker
  • Israel Blank, grandfather of Vladimir Lenin from mother's side
  • Jessica Blank, American actor, playwright, and novelist
  • Joani Blank (born 1937), writer and videographer
  • Johann Blank (1904-1983), German water polo player
  • Jonah Blank, American author
  • Joost de Blank (1908-1968), Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Julius Blank, semiconductor pioneer
  • Karl Blank (1728-1793), Russian architect
  • Kenny Blank (born 1977), American actor
  • Les Blank (1935–2013), American documentary filmmaker
  • Marc Blank, American computer game designer
  • Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (née Blank) (1835-1916),Vladimir Lenin's mother
  • Marion Blank, developmental psychologist
  • Martin Blank (born 1962), American glass artist
  • Peter Blank (born 1962), German javelin thrower
  • Renate Blank (born 1941), German politician
  • Stefan Blank (born 1977), German footballer
  • Steve Blank, entrepreneur
  • Theodor Blank (1905-1972), German politician
  • Victor Blank, British businessman
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Usage examples of "blank".

Achamian simply stared in blank horror, an anguished pendulum slowly swinging to and fro, to and fro .

All annoyingly, tantalizingly out of reach, as though viewing a movie through a dense filter, a movie with long gaps of dark screen where her imagination filled in the blanks.

An alien overfullness of sensation paralyzes the nerves, suspends the autonomic processes, hollows out a blank between action and reaction.

Upon a blank sheet of paper, in a brilliant blue ink, the hand of The Shadow wrote the name of Josiah Bartram, as though linking it with past events.

The hand in her crotch began or resumed its motion before the picture blanked, revealing the original blue wall.

The wall blanked to green and remained in that state for many seconds.

A long time ago I learned to keep part of my mind blanked off under your probing.

Kelly stopped cold, realizing that the can screwed onto the barrel blanked out his sights.

There followed ritual courtesies, and the screen blanked which had shown Cajal.

If I say to you Wodget or Crump, you find yourself passing over the fact that these are nothings, these are, so to speak, mere blankety blanks, and trying to think what sort of thing a Wodget or a Crump may be.

Got a car outside and the sooner we get away from this blankety blank madhouse the better.

The trees at Tse Bonito Park were yellow, the roadsides were streaked with the purple of the last surviving October asters, and overhead the sky was the dark, blank blue.

Renovated Peabody Estate homes shared space with the blank brick walls of post-war brutalist office blocks.

The screen went blank, to be replaced an instant later by a holographic representation of a section of a magnificent bathroom.

Thrice the horologers have looked into the great crystal globe wherein are foretold all happenings to be, and thrice the globe was blank.