She was staring vacantly into the room. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a vacant niche. ,no vacant seats on this train. ,a vacant room. ,a vacant mind. ,a vacant answer; a vacant expression on a face. ,vacant hours. ,a vacant life. ,He was vacant of human sympathy. ,a vacant house. ,a vacant estate. From Dictionary.com.
Van Sneck was lying on the bed looking vacantly about him. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
Bob at last opened his eyes, and gazed vacantly around him. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
Myra wakes up, stretches, and stares vacantly out the window. From Wordnik.com. [Myra's Middle Name] Reference
I begged them to come back to life, but they stared at me vacantly. From Wordnik.com. [You're Not Real] Reference
The sloth-bear, after staring vacantly awhile slowly shook his head. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
They stare vacantly out at the desert or at the walls of their Bradleys. From Wordnik.com. [The Grunt's War] Reference
President, gazing vacantly in his face as they would from the gallery of. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Cyrus Thurston stared vacantly at the breakfast he was forgetting to eat. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
He followed vacantly her most enchanting undulations and yawned listlessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
She closed her mouth firmly for a moment and looked him vacantly in the face. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Nell sank into a corner of the luxurious carriage, and stared vacantly before her. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Archie looked vacantly from wife to daughter, like one who has let something drop. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
Presently he revives, and looks vacantly round like a man just waking out of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
Martin stared vacantly at Mrs. Burke, dropped his glass, and muttered incoherently. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
Ted was at Bobby's side, now standing, now pacing vacantly, now kneeling in prayer. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference
Pierre smiles vacantly, stands in reverie, then extending his hand, in low tones says. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
"Poor fellows!" remarked George, as he gazed vacantly before him, lost in contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island] Reference
Charles stares vacantly past the minister to a spot on the wall as bald as the man's head. From Wordnik.com. [Best Left Unsaid: intro and ch.01] Reference
Take a look at the black-painted fence as it whips by, the cows staring vacantly behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Driving directions] Reference
Now, they were sitting, hunched against the wall, staring vacantly, in the manner of serfs. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
Suddenly starting, aimlessly pausing, fiercely scowling, vacantly staring, he is again seated. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
The latter gazed vacantly into space, as though reflecting, and finally said: "I do not know.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island] Reference
I let the paper drop as I gazed vacantly at the ceiling and tried to realize the whole affair. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician] Reference
He stared vacantly at the others, shrugged his shoulders slightly, and turned his back on them. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
His sleep is usually interrupted by nightmares, and he spends most of his time staring vacantly. From Wordnik.com. [LIVING WITH FEAR] Reference
"Lost yeer reckoning eh, Tom?" he continues as that bewildered individual stares vacantly at him. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
The drink arrived and he sipped at it vacantly, thinking back to Diana and her story of the Gods. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
A knifesmith — the strain of arduous labor etched in his face — stares vacantly into the lens. From Wordnik.com. [You Don’t Know Jack] Reference
Paul chose to do nothing, but to wander hungrily and vacantly through the city in the dinner-hour. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The horror which that word had caused for some time overmastered him, and he sat staring vacantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
"Do I?" she said, pushing the hair from her forehead with both hands, and staring before her vacantly. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
I looked at her vacantly for a moment, and falling back languidly in my seat, muttered faintly, "Go on.". From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
The boy thought it was a rum go, and stood staring vacantly while Hardwicke galloped off on his terrible errand. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Motionless, staring vacantly, it stood there for an instant -- then was concealed completely by the rolling vapor. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
A long shiver passed over her, and she sighed heavily once or twice as she looked vacantly at the letter on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
My poor mother had loved him so! perhaps he was thinking of her, as he sat there, looking vacantly out towards the west. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Evelyn looked at each other, then at Lucile, vacantly at first, and then, as the truth dawned upon them, they began to laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
Some stared at us vacantly; others lowered their eyelids and rubbed their hands together softly, with a terrible subservience. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
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