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Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Her face, with its firm brow and softly rounded shape, is almost as blank as a child's; her hair, center parted, is mouse-brown.

THROUGH eyes as blank as a tilapia's Stephen and Timothy Quay contemplate a world that is curious, doubtful, beastly and deranged.

"The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of rooms; but was particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting.

His, as he looks toward her, is hard to read: his dead-white face is all but featureless, with no nose and no chin, as blank as a pullover mask.

Then there are those truly shocking moments when his face goes as blank as a cadaver's, and you realize that those fancy finger waves with which he punctuates the lighting of a cigarette are used to camouflage delirium tremens.

Apply Dame Davies's dictum to other activities that marginally increase your chance of dying or contracting cancer, and I bet your diary starts to look as blank as a nurse's smock.

Panels were as blank as if wiped by a vampire.

There's a spare and eerie charge to this tale of 'homemaker' Carol White Julianne Mooree) who lives a life as blank as her name and who ends up succumbing to an unnamed malaise, retreating from the Californian suburbs to find a cure in the 'safe' haven of a new-age clinic which turns out to be the most creepy of places.

His Facebook profile picture is as blank as they come: It's a plain, white square.

But in "Gold," all we see are Kate and Zoe, temperamental friends, training and working out their relationship against a backdrop as blank as Toronto.

In "Hanna" she enters with a face nearly as blank as paper and devoid of obvious emotion, her eerie, translucent blue eyes here transformed into opaque pools.