How to Use blank stare in a Sentence

blank stare

noun

• So we’re left to watch, for some of us to be haunted by Brittney Griner’s blank stare.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2022
• The man and his wife said Howze was acting strange, had a blank stare on his face and was making paranoid statements.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
• Requests for simple movements are met with a blank stare.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2022
• As House staff distributed copies of the report to all 150 members, Slaton sat at his desk with a blank stare.
  — Dallas News, 6 May 2023
• On the sideline during games, Solomon watches with an intense blank stare.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• Not surprisingly, most people say no, dismissing him with a blank stare, a shake of the head, and once in a while, a dirty look.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 21 Apr. 2022
• The driver appeared to have a blank stare and smelled of an alcoholic beverage.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 19 Feb. 2022
• Koy ended up apologizing to Swift, who responded to the joke with a blank stare.
  — Patrick Ryan, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2024
• Sitting across from Ruby’s blank stare, the detective tried again.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
• His emptiness and blank stare were not lost on the families in their victim impact statements.
  — Dallas News, 14 Oct. 2022
• Even in his own promo photos, his blank stare ranges, if just barely, from slightly startled to unmoved, save for a Mona Lisa smile.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• Griner appeared to react to the sentencing with very little emotion, listening to the verdict with a blank stare on her face.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 4 Aug. 2022
• With her blonde wig, blank stare, baby doll dress and general judgy demeanor, M3GAN is camp personified.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2023
• Big ones and little ones, smudging your thoughts, snacking on syntax, gumming up your words until a blank stare feels like a perfectly reasonable response to just about anything.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• Comedy can be cruelly fleeting; one generation’s belly laugh is often the next one’s blank stare.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• While Gigi and Emily assumed the models’ traditional blank stare, Paris couldn’t resist hamming it up for the editors looking on, alternating between a pout and a beaming grin.
  — Kerry McDermott, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2022
• While most people greet these arguments over terminology with a blank stare, corporations love Style Guide Liberalism.
  — Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024