1.   In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece.

2.   Beans, either processed or drained and rinsed, are also a good blank canvas for hearty offerings.

3.   Against the blank canvas of a neutral rhythm section, eight of the better improvisers in jazz grappled in a cutting contest at Avery Fisher Hall on Friday.

4.   Against this blank canvas, every object has its own small history.

5.   But for others, a white wall is a provocation, a gauntlet, a blank canvas that demands embellishment.

6.   But it does provide an ideal blank canvas for the flavor footprints of other cuisines.

7.   But putting Earnhardt behind the wheel of his trusty mount was akin to putting Rembrandt before a blank canvas, Shakespeare before a blank page.

8.   Carolus-Duran exhorted his students to paint not from drawings, as the academics taught, but directly onto a blank canvas with a loaded brush.

9.   Chauncey Billups and Ron Mercer are blank canvases.

10.   Confronted by the blank canvas of the computer screen, two British artists have gazed into cyberspace and digitally depicted their visions in new online artworks.