blank stare
noun
: a look that shows one does not understand what someone has said or does not know the answer to a question
My question only drew/got a blank stare.
Examples of blank stare in a Sentence
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The composite depicts a man with a short beard, hat and a blank stare above heavy eye bags.
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Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
While Trump talked, Biden often looked his way with a blank stare and his mouth open.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
Biden’s steady decline the past few years — his stumbles, his search for words, his occasional blank stare — has been impossible to ignore.
—Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
His evident delight in mocking Biden as a doddering old fool has inspired a robust marketplace of Republican imitators, who post clips of Biden’s every halting stutter or blank stare as proof of his senescence, while ignoring the many miscues of their own leader.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
As Kirk Franklin performed on a stage in front of him, Biden stood motionless with a blank stare while those standing next to him were dancing.
—Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 June 2024
But even as Landeskog describes his recovery, there is no defeat in his voice, no blank stare in his eyes or emptiness in words.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 23 May 2024
Sitting across from Ruby’s blank stare, the detective tried again.
—Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
While the 52-year-old comic received nothing but a blank stare from Taylor Swift over his jab at her NFL screen time, his Barbie joke elicited a much worse reaction from his audience of A-listers.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 15 Jan. 2024
Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
While Trump talked, Biden often looked his way with a blank stare and his mouth open.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
Biden’s steady decline the past few years — his stumbles, his search for words, his occasional blank stare — has been impossible to ignore.
—Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
His evident delight in mocking Biden as a doddering old fool has inspired a robust marketplace of Republican imitators, who post clips of Biden’s every halting stutter or blank stare as proof of his senescence, while ignoring the many miscues of their own leader.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
As Kirk Franklin performed on a stage in front of him, Biden stood motionless with a blank stare while those standing next to him were dancing.
—Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 June 2024
But even as Landeskog describes his recovery, there is no defeat in his voice, no blank stare in his eyes or emptiness in words.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 23 May 2024
Sitting across from Ruby’s blank stare, the detective tried again.
—Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
While the 52-year-old comic received nothing but a blank stare from Taylor Swift over his jab at her NFL screen time, his Barbie joke elicited a much worse reaction from his audience of A-listers.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 15 Jan. 2024
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“Blank stare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blank%20stare. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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