How To Use vacantly In A Sentence
- At this point the imagery begins to repeat itself in different iterations, as it will for the rest of the novel: The man is at the station where the woman is now looking at him "vacantly"; the dog appears again, blocking his path; he walks along the street, where "a cyclist is trying to pedal along," the fish in his saddle bag now joined by a loaf of bread on top of it. Experimental Fiction
- I didn't move, but sat against the mast running my finger along the cut on my foot and looking vacantly at the green-brown wavelets parting before us, the boulders and cedars along the shore and cloud menagerie overhead.
- He's pulled to his feet and stands vacantly and unhelpfully behind the coffin as it seesaws up the steps, carried by the royal family, in a confusion of priests and cameramen.
- I would catch him in his striped pajamas, staring vacantly at the wall, his thinning hair greasy from sleep. Double or Nothing
- Oh, yes, " returned Carrie, vacantly, trying to arrange this curious proposition in her mind.
- He gazed vacantly while the verdict and sentence were pronounced.
- Maureen sits there staring vacantly across the table, a stray bit of spittle drooling out of the side of her mouth…
- Xiangzi grinned vacantly, not catching his hidden meaning.
- Then there's Dad handing his procrastinator a book on successful college essays and watching the boy vacantly turn it over in his hands. 'Crazy U,' by Andrew Ferguson, about his family's college admissions experience
- I go about vacantly smiling upon people and feeling like a ghost....
