How To Use Blind In A Sentence

The recession blindsided a lot of lawyers who had previously taken for granted their comfortable income.
A partially blind, poor, black man with little or no book learning outside of the Bible heard a call.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
I have found that a tool guided by a straight-edge, and "jiggered" backwards and forwards, makes by far the best lines for blind-tool work. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
On Continental Europe no one ever pays a blind bit of notice to them.

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The wall paper and carpets are mostly green, coeval with the gasalier and the Venetian blinds. The Doctor's Dilemma
He is blind in both eyes.
The sun was so strong we had to pull down the blinds.
Some paragliding pilots liken their sport to paddling a Class V river while blindfolded.
The women turn a blind eye.
The detention of at least two of the three lawyers in recent days appears to be linked to recent developments regarding the blind, self-taught legal activist Chen Guangcheng.
On one of the horses was a slight figure, bound and blindfolded.
“Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.” — The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend
The Jet Ranger arced upwards, a big prehistoric pterodactyl lurching blindly in its death throes.
The interface between syntax and pragmatics may in general be summarized in a Kantian apophthegm: pragmatics without syntax is empty; syntax without pragmatics is blind.
Press the pleats with the stitching centred over the tapes to form two inverted pleats on the right side of the blind. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
Thoroughly frustrated with the blindness of his countrymen, he resolved to establish a community in America.
Sadly, because we found our wine so late, and things have been hectic with a sick 9-month old here at the LENNDEVOURS world headquarters there wasn't time for a full-fledge review, meaning that I didn't taste it blind or even pull my notebook out. Wine Blogging Wednesday
Cornelius observed that the wooden bobbin dangling on a string from the window blind was the shape of an acorn.
The blinding midday heat had forced the people to retire to their huts. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
She's almost blind in her right eye.
The treaty usually took place in the dishevelled drawing-room, after a round of the widely parted chambers, where frowzy beds, covered with frowzy white counterpanes, stood on frowzy carpets or yet frowzier mattings, and dusty windows peered into purblind courts. London Films
Yet again she refused, and this time the mage threw open the door to her room in a blind rage.
He had once been an innocent child, blind to the harsh reality of the world.
Since he was color blind, he favored large, showy flowers.
This is especially so when a diagnosis of dementia blinds works to remaining skills.
The city is the first thing I see from my bedroom window when I roll up the blinds of a morning, except on those days when it is shrouded in a thick blanket of damp mist.
The sun was nearly blinding, but it made for a gloriously bright day.
What relation was the blind beggar to the blind beggar's brother? Exploring language (6th edn)
Their cursed digital cameras flared out those blinding blue and green lights throughout the concert.
People who wear them are not half-blind, they are 'geeky, but in a good way'. Times, Sunday Times
I couldn't see where I was going most of the time and people used to yell at me as I stumbled randomly, blindly down the street.
The blind man had finished his song; he began thrumming the strings again and singing amusing ballads.
Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness. Literature and Life (Complete)
The lack of laughter in the auditorium is offset only by our blind hope that there is method in this madness and that an explanation is around the corner.
It is not a blind law, for no blind law can govern the conduct of human beings....
He had been diagnosed as cortically blind and virtually the only vocal sound he was capable of making was a ‘clicking’ in his throat.
I suggested that maybe blindly feeling your way around a pool was similar to exploring unknown places like Marco Polo did.
Drag to Playlist blue jet firearmed pilot case record in blind at. .'polish crash "recor dpalce WN.com - Articles related to Sun Country Airlines sells Fall Free for All Passes
OTOH I’ve always been fascinated by the massive blind spot in multiculti and PC discourse which refuses to acknowledge the oppressive and discriminatory elements in many non western cultures. Cheeseburger Gothic » Drop your bombs between the minarets, down Geneva way-ay-ay-aaayyy…
Strenuously jamming their alleged principles into an oubliette is an exercise that apparently causes blindness, as well. Archive 2009-11-01
The trade was illegal but the government turned a blind eye. Times, Sunday Times
Orphaned and blinded from childhood, he became an ascetic freethinker and materialist.
Can we preserve nuance, detail and polychromy in our accounts of ourselves – as complex selves in a complex society – without being coerced into subscription towards one group identity or another by colour-blind demagogues? A true democracy demands constant revitalisation of the spirit of openness, generosity and liberality of opinion
Begins glowing as the room fills with a blinding force lightwave. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to do super-acronyms like SHIELD or FLAG
I stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of reason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "_slave of the soul_" and "_tyrant of reason_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
She groped blindly for the light switch in the dark room.
The blind arcading pattern and inscriptions in Armenian that cover the church's external walls are reflected throughout the site on the elegant Church of the Redeemer, built to house a fragment of the True Cross, and the Church of the Holy Apostles. Time-Traveling in Armenia
He felt snow-blind to his surroundings as he sat up and shaded his eyes with chained hands. A KING'S RANSOM
He is blinded and befogged by two things: (1) his (i.e. their) aristocratism, and again (2) his satisfaction in splendour and get-up, provided it is attached to moral greatness. Cyropaedia
Edna said, with a blinding smile, the echo of her clacking heels loud on the hardwood floor of our hallway.
Ten millilitres of pure methanol can cause blindness and 30 millilitres death, so it is just small amounts.
A blind criminal delivering money to a gangster forces a motel owner to act as his eyes when he discovers the cash has been stolen. The Sun
This difficult-to-treat strain, called neurosyphilis, can cause blindness and stroke, and a CDC researcher said that it's spreading among this cohort because, although they're already HIV-positive, they are not using condoms. Gabriel Rotello: Deadly Error Alert: Andrew Sullivan's Latest AIDS Fantasy
By 4.30 I was cruising round Seymour swimming pool, parking on the blind side as far as Sedgeley House was concerned.
One evening we labored, stung by nettles and mosquitoes, to set up Sewell's camera blind on Otter Pond in the great marsh.
The slats of this blind are made from several different gauges of aluminum.
The criminals were punished and blinded
Blind, totally eyeless trilobites have given us another indication of the range of trilobite habits and habitats.
Her blindness of both eyes resulted from a traffic accident.
Laila is blind, rambunctious, with a laser-sharp wit and a highly infectious laugh.
As inaccurate as the weapons were, especially on a galloping horse, he would only be hit by blind chance.
Seeking a perfect opportunity to twist those words around into a faux color-blind ideology, they have used them to constantly suggest that those who raise a cry against injustice and institutional racism reject the legacy of MLK. Think Progress » GOP Claims It’s Upholding The Legacy Of MLK, A Fighter Against The ‘Injustice’ In Health Care Inequality
She also subscribes to the talking book service run by the Royal National Institute of the Blind, where she can get complete, unabridged novels on audio tape.
exfoliated" surface sheets which here, too, gave it an inhuman, primeval look; in the higher sun the vast expanse looked, I suppose, more blindingly white; and nowhere did buildings or thickets seem to emerge. Over Prairie Trails
Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
Sixteen hours later, cells from both groups were subjected to OGD for 6 hrs, fixed under hypoxia, the nuclei were Hoechst-stained and then scored (in a blinded fashion) for presence of either a normal vs pyknotic / mis-shapen / condensed morphology. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
But what was remarkable in the lady was, that although her features were handsome, and upon the whole pleasing, the pupil of each eye was dimmed with the whiteness of cataract, and she was evidently stone-blind. The Purcell Papers
Sam instantly dislikes the man and sees him for a worthless, no-good bounder, but Ellen is blinded by her need to be part of an extended family unit.
International companies are all too often blind to local needs.
England see him as a centre, although he has made an impact for Bath at blindside flanker. Times, Sunday Times
The girls were blindfolded and turned around three times; then they had to hit the shoe until it broke and the goodies spilled out.
Onchocerciasis eliminated from west Africa: Officials from the World Health Organization last week celebrated the elimination of onchocerciasis, or river blindness, as a public health threat in west Africa.
A fat ego can blind a corporate executive to reality like a bad cataract.
If not they might buck until they get tired or rid themselves of the unwanted load when the blindfold is removed. Be Careful in Bear Country
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
The printing was poor and he tried to blind me with science by saying that it was the fault of the paper and not his machine.
Blindfolded, I don't believe I could have told, but from inspection I think it contained apple, gooseberry and blackcurrant.
Search strategy has largely blind search and heuristic search two categories.
We have a “game box” and I love sitting with a cup of coffee, watching our children and grandchildren playing board games, working puzzles or playing Uno with the cards Gary, who is blind, has brailed. Christmas Magic
He showed a slide of a sign for deafblind literacy that demonstrated concepts of best practices such as high contrast lettering, the angle of the plate that the braille was on, the raised lettering on the words. Web Teacher › Report from WDN 09: Educating the Next Generation of Web Professionals, IV
The blind touched the elephant's ear and said that it was just like a huge fan.
Are we aware of evil's reality yet blind to its force and effects, unable to name and describe it?
Jake crawled onto the bed, groping blindly for the towel he always kept nearby for just these occasions.
It's possible, of course, to jump ‘blind’ as long as your astrogation computer doesn't have the safety controls engaged, but the practice has little to recommend it.
None so blind as those who won't see.
For there is some degree of blindness and fear about these things, an avoidance of the spirit in athletics.
This paved the way for future legislation improving the lives of deafblind people. Times, Sunday Times
Tonks's patients are joined by amputees, the shellshocked, the blinded, the wheelchairbound. The Times Literary Supplement
Blind people quickly learn to find their bearing (space, time) in judo training and to move around with self-assurance.
I could do that blindfold , ie easily , regardless of obstacles.
They do blinding beaded ones season after season. Times, Sunday Times
Faced with technophobia, hyped techno-optimism, and Futurist discourses of progress that make us blind to the clumsy reality of computers, how do we think about and live with technology?
Unfortunately, the America's-always-to-blame bozos get all the publicity - and you're giving them more by implying that their moral blindness characterizes the academy as a whole.
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
Without adequate information, many students choose a college almost blindly.
Because wilful blindness to facts is rarely good policy. Times, Sunday Times
Playing the Short Stack Entering the final table with 8-12 blinds will qualify one as a short stack at the table.
In retrospect, it is blindingly clear that a sudden great stress on a body stretched taut across the back has the potential to give problems. Times, Sunday Times
An nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
He said that resources were being wasted as a result with different research programmes heading up blind alleys one after each other. Times, Sunday Times
A blinding coat of white blanketed the thick shrubbery that defined my garden.
Determined not to re-enter blind institution life, I headed for the nearby technical college who wouldn't have me either.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Walker, standing at the foot of the shaft waiting for the answering signal from above, heard the noise and the rush of Mag's body as it bumped from side to side in its mad descent, and starting back, he was just in time to get clear as the mangled mass of rags and blood and pulpy flesh fell with a loud splashy thud at the bottom, the blood spattering and "jauping" him and the bottomer, and blinding their eyes as it flew all over them. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
His intellectual incoherence should not blind us to the populist possibilities he has stumbled upon.
Weep not for roads untraveled. Weep not for paths left alone 'cause beyond every bend is a long blinding end.
In Trainspotting, Begbie's blood boils at the backpackers who see the sights of the city centre but are blind to the blighted landscape of its surrounding schemes.
The two boys were blind, also, to the manifold glories of Mirror Lake which reposed at their very feet. DUTCH COURAGE
This amounts to little more than a game of blind man 's bluff. Times, Sunday Times
He was blind from birth.
If blind eyes are turned to some drug use, such as cannabis, on the (utterly mistaken) assumption that it is relatively unharmful, this destroys the consistency that is the absolute requirement to hold a moral and behavioural line.
Blind or tactile techniques using the stylet to facilitate tracheal intubation have been previously described.
Each blind student was paired with a sighted student.
Balloon blind A shade or blind with deep inverted pleats which create a billowing balloon-like effect.
I swung from blind happiness to almost incandescent, unfocused rage within a second, almost before I had a chance to think about it.
Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect. State of the Union
Where the legal definitions of childhood were constructed in order to protect children against working in the mines until their bones grew soft from lack of sunlight or weaving rugs until their legs were crippled from sitting and they were going blind, these same definitions have been used to create target groups for "otherness" - and ugly otherness at that. Thinking with my fingers
But even Hymes has his blind spots.
And social workers blindly accepting the mother's seeming compliance as a sign that all was well. The Sun
He was expected to be blind, deaf, unable to speak, and quadriplegic.
Baxter rode solo on an unmodified, high-performance Kawasaki Ninja ZX - 12R for the St Dunstan's Blind Ambition Campaign.
It's as if the ISG glued blinders to their collective head, ignoring the fact that both Iran and Syria are engaging in hegemonic actions to control Iraq; that either of these countries will only support the parts of the ISG that assist in the achievement of their goals, and that they will tell us anything while they do whatever the hell they want, because they do not fear us. Sound Politics: Re: The Israel Gambit
He insists it was an "abstemious" occasion, but warm beer was put in a bucket of ice and then Dr Calder knocked the bucket and one of the corks shot out and hit him in the eye, blinding it. Kiwiblog
Recently Fuchs 14.133 has reported his experience in cornea-grafting in sections, as a substitute for von Hippel's method, in parenchymatous keratitis and corneal staphyloma, and though not eminently successful himself, he considers the operation worthy of trial in cases that are without help, and doomed to blindness. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
In a moment of blind panic, I crashed through the back door, the door clanging on its frame as it snapped back into place.
The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
Leftists thrive on blind emotion and stoking that emotion is not helpful.
There are developmental problems: purblindness, other kinds of developmental problems.
Yet he has a very short fuse, perhaps the inevitable result of coping with his blindness in such a pressurised job.
I prefer to watch my drama unfold from a tree or a box blind. Hunters on Acting
To prevent say our wits being blinded or blasted by the unaccommodated nuclear glare of Reality. Archive 2007-02-01
And whereas traffic wardens currently turn a blind eye to hearses and wedding cars parking on the double yellow lines, they will have no choice but to issue tickets in the future.
These guys are inexplicably stupid, tone deaf, suicidal and egomaniacally blind to the wishes of the American people. Home/News
I have the misfortune to live between a blinding, yellow concrete monstrosity on one side and an unkempt, dirty, semi-paved yard on the other.
When the Moment of Truth arrives, the user sees the results of a proper double-blind test.
Ryan Wayne added little to the attack and like other players ran up blind alleys.
Not much of a stargazer, myself, as that type of "opportune" brillance can be blinding. Black Hillary Backers In South Carolina Tried To Block Obama Invite
Conditions on Australia's east coast were vastly improved yesterday from the blinding rain that greeted the 57 starters a day earlier.
Meggie gaped at the tiny thing roaming blindly round Fee's bare skin in search of more hirsute territory, then she began to weep. THE THORN BIRDS
The etiquette of whether one should assist or not assist blind people is somewhat unclear.
Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith.
He was the blindingly brilliant light in a performance of many shadows. Times, Sunday Times
The big man brought his rifle about with blinding speed, sighted along the rail and optical sight, and let off a round.
‘Whisht, woman! whisht!’ said the blind man, angrily, shaking his locks; ‘dinna deave the gentleman wi’ your havers. Redgauntlet
Should we see them as dreary drudges, blind to the creativity of the Shakespeares and Hemingways who are taking the test?
‘I'm going to try and throw a flashbang at it, and blind the pilot inside,’ I informed him.
We cannot continue to turn a blind eye or ear and pretend that all is well when many people are hurting and yearning for help.
If a woman were blind, the good wonder-workers would give her back her eyes; if a man were halt, they would give him back his leg.
No, if other things as great in the Church, and in the rule of life both economical and political, be not looked into and reformed, we have looked so long upon the blaze that Zuinglius and Calvin hath beaconed up to us, that we are stark blind. Areopagitica
Blind image restoration is to recover the original image form the observed degraded image with unknown the Point Spread Function (PSF).
A blind man who leans against a wall imagines that it's the boundary of the world.
You are missing the fact that since intelligent cause is indistiguishable from lawlike cause, then when ID say "The best explanation is intelligent cause, rather than blind, lawlike cause …" it is nonsense. Aiguy's Computer
When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears.
Another pair of wings momentarily blinded her, and every bird that had occupied the tree suddenly left in a rush, loud chirrups marking their way.
A blind woman had just regained her sight: did she really ascribe that to her own intervention? GRACE
Is to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of louis Braille (1809-1852) french inventor of this alphabet for the blind people over the world. France 2009/10 national football team kits
Then suddenly he felt a blinding hit at the base of his skull, which sent him back into a black abyss.
Elaine arranged for me to go on a blind date with a bloke from her office.
In terms of the larger historical and social questions, they proceed blindly.
he was psychically blind
During walks in the woods, Rusty, whose blindness is caused by underdeveloped retinas, would follow Dugan, staying right at his ear.
Its members rarely published any verse or stories for adult market publications, and wrote instead for children's magazines, a blind for some of the most experimental work in the Stalinist era.
Tibetans treat the blind as outcasts because they believe they are possessed by demons or have committed evil in a prior life.
She's a partially blind and deaf thalidomide victim awaiting spinal surgery. The Sun
In everyday life, the greater the distance between points A and B, and the more rugged the intervening landscape, the bleaker are the odds for success of a blindfolded walk, even—or perhaps especially—when following a simple-minded rule like “always climb higher; never back down.” The Edge of Evolution
They should be really firm and cold so that you can avoid having to blind bake them. Times, Sunday Times
If one continues to cast an indifferent eye on/to turn a deaf ear to/ to be blind to/to overlook the problem, things are sure to go from bad to worse.
The future is already potentially present in the shape of the blind spots and contradictions of the present - in its silences and exclusions, its conflicts and fragmentations.
He scrambled to the floor and was about to dive under the bed when the door swung inwards and the light from the corridor blinded him for a moment.
Boyles regretted passing several does from a tower blind rashly dubbed ‘Muy Grande.’
It can be very dangerous if there's a vehicle in your blind spot.
The designers don't follow fashion blindly. Times, Sunday Times
Slowly, her gaze traced up to his eyes; his eyelids fluttered open, and for a second, his gaze was unfocused, searching blindly upon the stark hospital ceiling.
At the blind end of this chamber, the bone forms the tegmen tympani.
As a result, blind dating isn't just for geeks and losers anymore (well, not entirely, anyway).
A new blindfolding arrangement, consisting of two sets of blindfolds plus a canvas bag over the head, was tried out on the pastor, who reported that he couldn't see a thing.
This graphical procedure can be repeated, without becoming blinded by lists of numbers.
Methods A randomized, double-blind , multicenter, controlled trial of complex prescription cromolyn sodium and lovocabastine nasal spray was performed in the treatment of allergic rhinitis.
Young rabbits are born blind and hairless.
If she had only known which was the real one; she felt at times that his garrulity was a blind -- that he watched her almost satirically whilst he talked. The Wooden Horse
Because they are networked, smart markets are able to renegotiate relationships blinding speed.
We raced almost everyday over the bright blinding green hills with scattered trees here and there.
In 1964, two killers enter a school for the blind and gun down an unresisting mechanics instructor, Johnny North.
The visitors stuck to their task and after a series of rucks and mauls the ball was switched to the blindside for Toby Pemberton to drive over.
So it turns out that "fondling" is not part of the standard field sobriety test Radio station for blind to go off air, victim of budget cuts. Latest News - UPI.com
He suddenly missed the hellish heat and the blinding sun of Orlando.
It would be a tragedy if the increased use of video led to deafblind people becoming less and less able to access the web. Archive 2008-02-01
Aware of his defenceless condition in the bright daylight, when his purblindness would prevent him from evading the attacks of his enemies, he seeks some obscure retreat where he may pass the day without exposing himself to observation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. Across China on Foot
A woman who is so much exalted above what she can deserve, has reason to be terrified, were she to marry the complimenter (even could she suppose him so blinded by his passion as not to be absolutely insincere) to think of the height she must fall from in his opinion, when she has put it into his power to treat her but as what she is. Sir Charles Grandison
Most authors on the subject state that people with colour blindness will adapt without any serious inconvenience or problems.
Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace.
And as the block was not inked for this procedure it is called blind printing.
There are many international sides who would love a blindside flanker in their team as good as Haskell. Times, Sunday Times
Master should be soetimes blind and sometimes deaf.
For a week after that visit her lights had failed to go on — darkness brooded out into the areaway, seemed to grope blindly in at his expectant, uncurtained window. Tales of the Jazz Age
The morning sun bled through the blinds striping her room in a warm glow.
On a hot and humid day like today my normal survival approach is to turn the fans on full, adjust the ventilation to draw air from the north side of the house to the south, draw the blinds, and slop around waiting for things to cool down.
Briars thrown in his Way, and with Intrepidity if need requires, even imbrue his Hands in his opposers Blood, and make a Dagger with Blindfolded Eyes, force John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767

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