How to Use blank slate in a Sentence

blank slate

noun

• She viewed her students as blank slates, just waiting to be filled with knowledge.
• Ukraine isn’t an open desert, and the maps aren’t a blank slate.
  — Mark Kimmitt, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• For the first time in his career, Mr. Joseph faced a blank slate.
  — Daniel McDermon, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
• The action begins in the blank slate of the new apartment.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2022
• Hayes had a blank slate to fill, a team to construct from scratch.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• With a blank slate to work with, Albanese did just that.
  — Nathalie Kirby, House Beautiful, 2 June 2022
• So if the idea of meal prep stresses you out, start with a blank slate.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2020
• In sum, our city was, and still is, a nearly blank slate.
  — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2024
• The one thing that could work for him is Heavey is mostly a blank slate.
  — cleveland.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Use one of their templates, or start with a blank slate.
  — Lindsey Hunter Lopez, USA TODAY, 21 May 2021
• The draw marked the fifth blank slate of the season for Ranjitsingh and gave Louisville City a 7-2-2 record.
  — The Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, 9 June 2018
• There are no blank slates in a city like New York, but the site of Cornell Tech came close.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Sep. 2017
• Like Mao’s China, Manchukuo was viewed as a blank slate.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• Along with the cash prize, each finalist received the gift of a blank slate of time.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2021
• Doughnuts are like a blank slate waiting to be adorned.
  — Jeanette Settembre, WSJ, 13 May 2018
• The fact that the transfers were coming in with a blank slate just like a new coaching staff helped too.
  — Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022
• Mie, in this case, is the blank slate, constantly losing a sense of what was there.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• The basketball program though, is kind of like a blank slate.
  — Laken Litman, Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2018
• His face is a blank slate with phantom thoughts scribbled on it.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Sep. 2017
• Think of congee as a blank slate: Start with a ratio of 8 cups of water to 1 cup of short-grain rice.
  — Jennifer Day, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• The new building does this while acknowledging that no piece of the city is a blank slate.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Nov. 2021
• An eager buyer might see your kitchen as a blank slate.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2021
• This rice is no blank slate, no side-of-starch, no white-carton staple.
  — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• The effort to present a blank slate to voters would become that much harder.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• The project was an urban planner’s dream – a blank slate for reinventing a city of the future.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
• Bring life to the blank slate of your modern kitchen with these tips on how to embrace color in your design.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Dec. 2023
• With a blank slate on the developmental side of things, the new regime could look to bring a new face to the running back room as well.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2024
• Nothing’s happened yet and the day is a completely blank slate for the taking.
  — refinery29.com, 24 June 2020
• The program began as a blank slate, knowing only the rules of Go, and played games against itself.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
• Harris can present herself as a blank slate to voters in a way that Trump cannot, an inversion of recent incumbent-challenger patterns.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024