blank wall

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noun
  1. an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.

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How to use blank wall in a sentence

  • As before explained, the middle room was shut off from the office by a heavy blank wall.

  • He struggled up to his feet and gazed at the blank wall, so chill and dark, where the spirit-form had disappeared.

    They Looked and Loved | Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
  • He found that he had come through a blank wall and upon a little brick ledge or shelf that ran along it.

    A Modern Aladdin | Howard Pyle
  • It was an utterly wretched woman who sat staring for hours afterward at the blank wall before her.

    Thirty | Howard Vincent O'Brien