How To Use Blindfold In A Sentence
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Some paragliding pilots liken their sport to paddling a Class V river while blindfolded.
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On one of the horses was a slight figure, bound and blindfolded.
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The girls were blindfolded and turned around three times; then they had to hit the shoe until it broke and the goodies spilled out.
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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
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Blindfolded, I don't believe I could have told, but from inspection I think it contained apple, gooseberry and blackcurrant.

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I could do that blindfold , ie easily , regardless of obstacles.
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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
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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.
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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
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Then some began to spit at him; they blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, "Prophesy! " And the guards took him and beat him.
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Like Asa Schaeffer in our animation, he blindfolded his subjects if you can call what he did to them "blindfolding"; it's more like head wrapping and told them to try to walk straight for up to an hour.
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At the same time, he broke the world motorcycle record for a blind or blindfolded person.
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Patients were blindfolded and asked to close their mouths and one nostril.
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He told how he was blindfolded, taken to an interrogation centre and tortured for seven weeks.
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Andrew MuellerOnce upon a time, there was an amazing Channel 4 show called Lost no, not that one, in which teams were dumped, blindfolded, in exotic places and obliged to make their way back to London by hook, crook or improvised coracle.
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He is then blindfolded and has a hangman's noose placed around his neck.
The Sun
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Student X would have to wear a blindfold if she wanted to meet him - and still she said yes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning and a group of busy professional adults are standing around in a tennis court wearing blindfolds, arguing loudly and clutching a long piece of rope.
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Why, look ye," said the latter, as the coin jingled in his bag, "I was ever held in good repute as a guide, and can make my way blindfold over the bogs and mosses hereabout; and I would pilot thee to the place yonder, if my fealty to the prior -- that is -- if -- I mean -- though I was never a groat the richer for his bounty; yet he may not like strangers to pry into his garners and store-houses, especially in these evil times, when every cur begins to yelp at the heels of our bountiful mother; and every beast to bray out its reproaches at her great wealth and possessions.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
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A lone cadaverous figure standing near a nervous blindfolded donkey was seen centered in the destroyed fields.
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One day Hong came back from the fields to find them kneeling and blindfold by a pit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The former were blindfolded, and turned around on the spot to scramble their sense of direction.
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I was handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded and held in solitary confinement for three months.
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The invite came with a dart, which each blindfolded guest was required to throw at a giant map of the world.
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When they tried to walk toward the targets after being blindfolded or threw beanbags at them, they nearly always missed.
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COULD wearing a blindfold while you eat help you lose weight?
The Sun
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Investigating further, he found that with wadded up cloths in her eye sockets and two thick blindfolds around her head, she could still read the cards and even write, dotting the I's in the correct places.
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The blindfold was a precaution in case he failed, which Rapp had no intention of doing.
American Assassin
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I was blindfolded, but I could hear what they were saying, and I could actually hear the guns as they would cock them and uncock them to try to threaten me.
CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007
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Meditation doesn't remove the background noise, it is more like removing the blindfold.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can always count on this one for some comedy capers as blindfolded people crash into things.
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Because he knows all the tricks of his trade, he is able to spot a charlatan from a mile away while wearing a blindfold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then they attempted a repeat of the 1970s hostage-style device, blindfolding foreigners in a ploy designed to intimidate troops out of the country.
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It gives them an excuse to treat the hostages badly, and God knows it's bad enough just to be taken hostage and to be confined in some filthy room and maybe blindfolded.
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I looked down at my hands to see that they were holding a cloth; a blindfold.
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Then blindfold them and invite them to take four steps backwards followed by four forward before trying to blow out the candle.
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Mike Newman, 41, smashed the world land speed record for a car driven solo by an unsighted man, taking the title back from a sighted man with experience as a racing driver who set the record by wearing a blindfold.
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For me I'm a little bit claustrophobic, so whenever I've had the sensory deprivation, the gags and the blindfolds and of course the heat I would get panicked.
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And I just saw him looking very distressed before they forced him into his seat, and put a blindfold on him and covered his handcuffs with a blanket.
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Subalterns encrypt, blindfolded subjects call Zener-deck guesses to hidden microphones: "Waves ...
Gravity's Rainbow
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He then blindfolded her and led her to her chair at the table.
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Other avant-garde chefs go overboard with such devices as offering odors to be sniffed, blindfolding customers, or dispensing food with syringes; this was our meal's only foray into combinations of smells and tastes.
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It got to the point that I could make them blindfold, in about four minutes with no recipe, because I did it every single day.
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He is then blindfolded and has a hangman 's noose placed around his neck.
The Sun
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After being blindfolded, she waited only a few seconds before a French swordsman severed her head from her delicate neck.
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My favourite sex writing is the writing that like Lisa Moore’s Open or Degrees of Nakedness is real sex in seductive portions (the sensuous particulars Richard and Russell describe); Moore offers details and they read like morsels of a slow, blindfolded meal.
Discussion: On Sex in Fiction
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The women had been tied with shoe laces, the men with nylon rope, and plastic shopping bags were used to blindfold them.
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Cops who seized him found he had cable ties and tape that could have been used as a blindfold or gag.
The Sun
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It is worthy of remark that it had been taken away blindfold, that is to say, wrapped in a handkerchief.
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2
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I'm going into it blindfold, but I love the script.
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His chief distinction was in blindfold chess.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's like wearing a blindfold.
Times, Sunday Times
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When they had rammed their quarry, or were about to board, the blindfolds were whipped off and oarsmen became pirates again, grabbing their cutlasses and joining in the attack.
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The blindfold is the myth that the talent barometer is the same for everyone.
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A mother recognises the feel of her child's skin when blindfolded. Similarly, she can instantly identify her baby's cry.
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Patients were blindfolded and asked to close their mouths and one nostril.
Times, Sunday Times
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They lifted my blindfold and showed me a man being electrocuted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even though he was blindfolded all the time, they kept him alright and they did not mistreat or beat him in any way.
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I could do that blindfold , ie easily , regardless of obstacles.
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Justin called for the check and signed the bill before he tied the blindfold around Alex's head.
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Eyes closed beneath her blindfold, she gasped and waited for the sunburst to break over her, then fade.
A RAKE'S VOW
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I watched, gobsmacked, as he was blindfolded and went on to identify random objects from the crowd by passing his hands over them but not touching them.
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Her eyes then slid to the waterfall, cascading in a sparkle, blindfolding her from something.
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For the education of the senses in general, such as in the tactile, thermic, baric, and stereognostic exercises, we blindfold the child.
The Montessori Method
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And we have not been sitting back with earplugs and blindfolds.
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My father put a blindfold round my eyes and carried me up the hill, piggyback.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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Alternate between yourself and the fake-introduce another toy if you wish-before slowly removing the blindfold.
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Hernandez, who now pitches for the Washington Nationals, would put them to use now and then by blindfolding Motuzas.
Meet Baseball's Human Garbage Can
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It's like wearing a blindfold.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Our incentives package is akin to tying a boxer's hands behind his back, blindfolding him and throwing him into the ring with a world champion,’ said Maclean.
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All were blindfolded with the exception of one, who was the jingler, and who carried a bell in each hand, which he was obliged to keep ringing.
Old English Sports
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There was some icky couples counseling ("Try a blindfold") and therapeutic spending on vacations, clothes, furniture.
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They tie him up and blindfold him, then force-feed him an overdose of sleeping pills -- revenge, apparently, for a crime that eventually is specified.
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Impatient fingers untied the knots, pulling the blindfolds from my eyes.
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I had complete confidence in the pilot, he does the journey back and forth so many times a day he could probably do it blindfold.
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I imagine, though I didn't see it because I was blindfolded, that they were doing it with a razor blade or a scalpel.
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He appeared in court yesterday blindfolded and handcuffed and was remanded on bail for a fortnight.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the benefit of those listening to a simulcast of this on the radio, Rosie's blindfolded and that's Alec Baldwin talking after breathing in a balloon.
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A sleep mask can be used as a blindfold.
The Sun
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His chief distinction was in blindfold chess.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was blindfolded and taken to Secret Police headquarters.
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Not content with this bit of high-altitude aptitude, the equilibrist re-crosses the falls, first blindfolded, then on a bicycle, then on stilts, then pushing a wheelbarrow while carrying a man on his back.
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Ordeal by fire required suspects (usually freemen) to carry hot irons, or to walk blindfold and barefoot through red-hot ploughshares or over heated coals.
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Gagging the mouth, blindfolding and burning effigies are some of the usual forms of protest.
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A second post on Twitter carried a picture of three blindfolded prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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After producing the knife he subjected them to a terrifying experience during which he made them hand over their valuables, blindfolded them, tied them up and raped them.
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Meditation doesn't remove the background noise, it is more like removing the blindfold.
Times, Sunday Times
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A sleep mask can be used as a blindfold.
The Sun
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Justice is often personified as a blindfolded woman holding a pair of scales.
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The host's pretentious huffiness assures you that the blindfolded lady holding the scales is not only implacable and inescapable but - by gad, sir!
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He appeared in court yesterday blindfolded and handcuffed and was remanded on bail for a fortnight.
Times, Sunday Times
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A scrabble sounded behind them and it seemed as though someone had put a blindfold over their eyes.
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Harry Beckett, the Barbados-born trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer, who lived in London from 1954 and who has died after a stroke aged 75, made blindfold tests easy.
The Guardian World News
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They lifted my blindfold and showed me a man being electrocuted.
Times, Sunday Times
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That which makes his case the more piteous is that he is not himself aware of his misery and danger; he goes blindfold, nay, he goes laughing to his ruin.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Cops who seized him found he had cable ties and tape that could have been used as a blindfold or gag.
The Sun
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A mother recognises the feel of her child's skin when blindfolded. Similarly, she can instantly identify her baby's cry.
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If she falls over when blindfolded (because she relies on her eyes for balance), she probably has cerebellar hypoplasia, which is more common in kittens.
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In the Utut-Zhu game, the victory avenged Zhu's Sunday defeat when Utut overpowered her in two games of their blindfold chess exhibition.
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Behind the soft darkness of the cloth, she wept silently, the blindfold soaking up her tears.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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The novitiate, blindfolded and noosed, was brought before them and a gun fired into the air.
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For one thing, accepting a writer's distinctive style requires an act of faith from readers, and we usually like to know that someone can shoot a bow and arrow before we put blindfolds over our eyes and apples on our heads.
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Soon there were seven slips of paper in a hat - only one permitted the holder to remain unblindfolded.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inside a guardhouse in the compound, soldiers found more prisoners bound and blindfolded and showing evidence of abuse.
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Police say five men abducted the driver while he was asleep in the cab, wrapping tape around his head and blindfolding him.
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In the meantime, he tries quintain, a kind of jousting on foot, stoolball, dating from the 15th century and still played today, and jingling, where a man wearing bells is chased by a group of blindfolded women.
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Then blindfold them and invite them to take four steps backwards followed by four forward before trying to blow out the candle.
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The reporter was taken blindfold to a secret location.
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The cops were blindfolded and driven off in armoured personnel carriers.
The Sun
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Society was looking at itself too much already, was caught in recursive loops, and could more or less do this blindfolded.
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Alexander's photomontages also feature masked or blindfolded youths.
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Luckily Stefan can ski his way through these trees blindfold.
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HAMILL: He comes in blindfold, which is slightly dramatic.
CNN Transcript May 26, 2006
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They blindfolded and gagged her and tied her arms and legs.
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It moves forward as furtively as a guerilla able to walk jungle paths blindfold.
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All I could see from under the blindfold was the interrogator's black leather slippers.
118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes
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And even then it was uncommon because of the profoundly negative connotations blindfolds carried for medieval and Renaissance audiences, who viewed them as emblems not of impartiality but of deception hence the early use of the word hoodwink as a noun, meaning a blindfold or hood.
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In the synoptics, he is spat upon, blindfolded, struck on the face, and slapped (Matt. 26: 67-68, Mark 14: 65; Luke 22: 63-65).
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After trussing him with restraints and blindfolding him, they sped away.
The Longest War
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You dare not open your eyes but must grope your way about as if blindfolded.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, there is evidence of the shameful goings on at Guantanamo Bay, where cameras have shown us cages not fit for animals, shackles, gags, hoods and blindfolds.
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RAFOLS: Police say this is where a 38-year-old woman was kidnapped, beaten, and branded with a hot iron, the word snitch scorched into her cheek, then blindfolded, driven, and dropped in this nearby neighborhood.
CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2007
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A blindfolded person throwing darts at a chart would have done better than this.
Times, Sunday Times
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the hostage was blindfolded and driven away
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Comment: Right, with a blindfold and a cigarette....
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Cindy quickly freed the gag from Maria's mouth as Jordan removed her blindfold.
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Still blindfold, they were made to walk barefoot from the compound.
Times, Sunday Times
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People who've tried it out - including sighted people who wear blindfolds - describe the tongue sensations as ‘tingling or bubbling’.
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It was a little like riding a roller coaster blindfold.
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A mother recognises the feel of her child's skin when blindfolded. Similarly, she can instantly identify her baby's cry.
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Learn how the knot of your choice should be tied and practise till you can tie it blindfold.
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While a small band is playing and singing the traditional song of San Juan, blindfolded dancers from the audience try to hit the calabash with a stick.
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A blindfold test of this album might yield guesses like Stereolab in their garage days or a guitar-less Zappa, but Need New Body's zany debut is a free-standing oddity.
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They were allowed to take off their blindfolds, but had to cover their eyes every time a guard entered their tiny bare room, where they squatted on mattresses on the ground.
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When his special forces training had concluded, he and his comrades were blindfolded and driven to a secret location to pledge their allegiance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each year I ask my two children, Zoe, now 17, and Oliver, 15, to pick shares blindfold with a pin.
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The Australian chess grandmaster Ian Rogers took on six opponents blindfold and beat five.
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The acts cited by authorities include blindfolding children in a classroom and feeding them his semen in what children were allegedly told was a tasting game.
Los Angeles' Miramonte school removes entire faculty over sex claims
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The reporter was taken blindfold to a secret location.
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In goalball, a game for blind and visually impaired athletes, players wear blindfolds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mike Newman, 41, smashed the world land speed record for a car driven solo by an unsighted man, taking the title back from a sighted man with experience as a racing driver who set the record by wearing a blindfold.
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Each won a gold medal in blindfold taste tests, so you can be sure they give top value for money.
The Sun
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His abductors blindfolded him and drove him to a flat in southern Beirut.
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A typical video might see the pair attempt to apply make-up to one another's faces while wearing a blindfold.
Times, Sunday Times
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The launch will involve the ceremonial removal of pink blindfolds, to symbolise eyes being opened to the bigger picture.
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Nobody could believe it when he was found dead, naked and trussed up in handcuffs, blindfold and gagged.
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Those methods included the stripping and blindfolding of prisoners; beatings with fists, whips, and metal rods; administering electric shocks; and sexual assault.
The Longest War
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He could be blindfolded and still know how to play tennis,' he laughs.
The Sun
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Viewers saw her arriving at a hotel, where she later claimed that she and the man she was meeting for the first time had worn blindfolds in a bedroom and spent the afternoon trying to find each other.
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This time round they will need blindfolds and earmuffs as well.
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A convoy of armoured vehicles passed through holding a blindfolded captive.
The Sun
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But if she's blindfolded, how does she know which pan of the scale is heavier than the other?
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The odd thing about this sight, though, was that a blue blindfold covered the Angel Prince's eyes.
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The pure syndrome of alexia without agraphia is best viewed as a ‘linguistic blindfold’.
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He was kneeling on the floor, blindfolded and gagged and wearing handcuffs.
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Last month, a video surfaced on YouTube showing soldiers in Pakistani army uniforms firing at a half-dozen blindfolded prisoners.
Expanded U.S. military aid sought for Pakistan
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Berndt, 61, allegedly spoon-fed his semen to children as part of what he called a "tasting game" in which children were blindfolded and, in some cases, gagged with tape.
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Wearing a blindfold can help you focus on the pleasures.
The Sun
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You dare not open your eyes but must grope your way about as if blindfolded.
Times, Sunday Times
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He throws his knives blindfold, barely nicking his lovely target, inciting the pair to ever more reckless acts.
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She was naked, her arms tightly bound behind her, a gag filling her mouth, and a blindfold over her eyes.
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She said the two men broke into the house, blindfolded and gagged her before tying up her arms and legs.
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Finally, let's see how Leko ended up having his queen completely gift-wrapped in his blindfold game against Piket.
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Then they blindfolded 32 undergraduate students and had them don earmuffs, thick gloves and kneepads to prevent them from using sensory cues other than smell.
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I had a female hapkido teacher years ago who could fight several men at the same time while blindfolded.
Choosing Martial Art: A Celebration
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Chris, however was so in tune with his bike I'm sure he could have ridden blindfold had I asked him to.
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He was manacled, blindfolded, held on his knees for hours, beaten, and taken to the infamous Salem prison where he stayed for eleven days without charge or defence.
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A typical video might see the pair attempt to apply make-up to one another's faces while wearing a blindfold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Were you to transport someone blindfold between triple-garaged developments in Northumberland, Cheshire, Warwickshire and the home counties, it would be astonishing if they emerged blinking into the northern, southern and Midlands lights able to divine which was which.
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She plucked off her blindfold only to discover the blushing footman she had just embraced!
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All three were roughly hauled out, tied hand and foot and blindfolded.
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He appeared in court yesterday blindfolded and handcuffed and was remanded on bail for a fortnight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Considering the twins were already doing handstands and backflips while blindfolded on the top of a revolving 16-metre high wheel of death, it's difficult to imagine how the Russians might have gone one better.
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His abductors blindfolded him and drove him to a flat in southern Beirut.
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In Jeff's defense, he can do backside bigspins every time, even while blindfolded.
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He claimed she was blindfolded and sent into the ocean at Dockweiler Beach dressed in a heavy sweatsuit, socks and tennis shoes.
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They lifted my blindfold and showed me a man being electrocuted.
Times, Sunday Times
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The kind of sysadmin that plays the network blindfolded and upside down like Stevie Ray Vaughn, makes ch, ch, changes faster than David Bowie, smashes hackers like Pete Townsend does with guitars, keeps the show going like Bill Graham, and does it all with Ringo's good humor.
Boing Boing
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The panelists donned blindfolds and out came the host of Let's Make a Deal, Monty Hall, accompanied by the lovely Carol Merrill, who modelled prizes on that show.
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In the recent past, there have been protests wherein agitators had either blindfolded themselves or gagged their mouths to express their ire.
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| Reply yeah, it was fake, the prankster starts moving before the blindfold is on …. that’s why its funny
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Hehe…this prank took some thinking.
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The three meter board, being blindfolded kind of disorients the body like a night time environment.
The Parthenon
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You dare not open your eyes but must grope your way about as if blindfolded.
Times, Sunday Times
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To be clear, not all these characterizations are accurate or fair: the Oprah thing was more complicated, and the blindfold is only an occasional accouterment.
The Man We Knew Too Much
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Police allege the woman, now aged 30, was drugged before being blindfolded, sexually assaulted and defrauded during what they described as a bizarre and callous series of fake prayer sessions in Sydney's west between 2001 and 2005.
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Wearing a blindfold can help you focus on the pleasures.
The Sun
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After 15 days several of the prisoners were blindfolded, manacled, and asked to walk holding the person in front.
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Alongside about 30 Oldsmobile dealers, I once tied on a blindfold and then stumbled, sweaty hand in sweaty hand, through a cow pasture near the Saturn plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
What’s Good for GM
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Because he knows all the tricks of his trade, he is able to spot a charlatan from a mile away while wearing a blindfold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each won a gold medal in blindfold taste tests, so you can be sure they give top value for money.
The Sun
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The association asked local dignitaries to discover what life was like for a blind person by spending some time blindfolded.
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When the blindfold is used, they fix their attention upon the bandage itself, and change the exercise into a game, which does not fulfil the end we have in view with the exercise.
The Montessori Method
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The victim was blindfolded.
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Mozart might not have been the spendthrift hellion portrayed in the 1984 film Amadeus, but he could play the piano blindfolded, loved wooing women and wrote bawdy letters.
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The normal child may be blindfolded in the games where, for example, he is to recognise various weights, for this does help him to intensify and concentrate his attention upon the baric stimuli which he is to test.
The Montessori Method
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His threat to allow judges to reveal previous convictions of an accused to a jury in limited circumstances would rip the blindfold off Lady Justice and unbalance her already precariously tipping scales.
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Their horses' right eyes were patched over with blindfolds and their flanks hidden under thirty-three pounds of quilted cotton canvas.
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On a regular basis, peace activists are humiliated, blindfolded and shot in the kneecaps, sprayed with sewage and chemicals, deafened and "microwaved" by newer and ever more sadistic methods of crowd control, imprisoned and tortured.
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A mother recognises the feel of her child's skin when blindfolded. Similarly, she can instantly identify her baby's cry.
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Making his debut in the tournament, Morozevich suddenly found a hidden talent for the art of blindfold chess.