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blank wall

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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The office in which he lives is blind on both ends, and he himself habitually stares only at a blank wall.

And still that blank wall of dirt, that impenetrable darkness, that stubborn barrier between them and the blessed sunshine.

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.

He found that he had come through a blank wall and upon a little brick ledge or shelf that ran along it.

It was an utterly wretched woman who sat staring for hours afterward at the blank wall before her.

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