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Meanings of blanks in English
Type of cartridge for a firearm that contains gunpowder but no bullet or shot.
Synonyms
Examples for "blank"
Examples for "blank"
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When Tilke is given a blank canvas, however, the results are different.
2
Malala was shot three times at point blank range two years ago.
3
Among the reported problems was a company official handing out blank prescriptions.
4
She was sweet and simple and beautiful and blank as clear water.
5
His paper was so far an utter blank save for his name.
1
Everyone passed, East made her opening lead, and I tabled the dummy.
2
But the thrill of the game is not in tackling the dummy.
3
The dummy is better for showing up the defects in your work.
4
The shower being over we returned to the house of the dummy.
5
It was as good as we had ever done in dummy runs.
1
Wish I didn't have a blank cartridge in the rifle, replied the captain.
2
She now fired a blank cartridge and hoisted the Patriot flag.
3
A blank cartridge brought her round again, and hove her to.
4
Question-Whatproportion of the whole battalion had not been exercised with blank cartridge?
5
One of them has a blank cartridge in it; the other is fully loaded.
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Some protesters held up blank ammunition cartridge allegedly fired by police.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest A protester shows a blank ammunition at a protest in Santiago on Monday.
3
They attack with blank ammunition, fire, and maneuver using the leapfrog technique they learned only a few days ago.
4
They were a company of the 60th Rifles and Rifle Brigade, supplied with a few rounds of blank ammunition.
5
It said the activities would include the use of pyrotechnics, blank ammunition firing, drones and actors simulating a crowd of protesters.
Usage of blanks in English
1
Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the proper pronouns.
2
In each group of sentences fill the blanks with the proper words:
3
Fill the following blanks with the proper forms of the compound relatives:
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That she'd been pregnant and therefore I had to be firing blanks.
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This was probably a case of my imagination filling in the blanks.
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OTR readers, feel free to fill in the blanks on this one.
7
The mind of the reader fills up the blanks,-iferroneously, still satisfactorily.
8
Sometimes it's the blanks that mean more than the bumps, you know?
9
That settled it, and we set ourselves to fill up the blanks.
10
These blanks are neatly put up in small packages, with proper envelopes.
11
There are gaps, blanks, throughout, which I will need to fill in.
12
It worked fitfully, and its processes were broken with blanks and breaks.
13
Like all lotteries, there are few prizes to the proportion of blanks.
14
He uses a good many blanks, but it is not blank verse.
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My mind blanks for a moment, and there's a big hollow feeling.
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But why does it seem men are shooting more blanks than before?
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Blanks across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common