How To Use Blink In A Sentence
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Even I, a tolerant representative of the Middle Way, found myself blinking at this unquestionably Romish style of adornment.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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He admired Machiavelli for recognizing that sometimes our ends are mutually exclusive and for facing that fact unblinkingly.
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Not sure what a 'twofer' is, but if what you mean is that the '2050' scenario is ridiculous, then you're way into denial and every bit as susceptible to the blinkers of 'You Know You Are Right' as those you ridicule.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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* blinks* It's 6: 00 in the morning, I haven't had any sleep, and I got a letter from someone in Oz ... * blinks again*
Jaxraven Diary Entry
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It was laying on its front and looked as if its head had been resting in its folded arms before rising up enough to let one of its unblinking eyes stare at Kyri through strands of long red hair.
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Because then that bald spokesguy with the BIG VOICE!! and unblinking stare is on my TV every bloody commercial break.
I hate it when The Brick has a sale
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The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun.
The Redemption of David Corson
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Our lives become narrow, blinkered, limited.
Life Without Work
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I blinked in surprise; her dark, sandy-blond hair, rough in texture, was now streaked with green.
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Maybe his vision could have been blinkered by already knowing the players personally.
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The TV announcer never seems to blink.
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That longan blinks to anticipate treatment of water spirit, gaze at small fox black 78 black slightly distress face.
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You can't blink the fact that the country's economy is suffering.
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The new rate would be about 1 megabit per second, enough to transmit a small novel in a blink.
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Why, he asks, does wearing the swastika attract widespread scorn, while no one blinks at the person wearing a hammer and sickle on his baseball cap?
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A red light blinking in the answer machine slowly flicked on and off.
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Emily found her eyes full of tears, and blinked them back.
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The top selling non-fiction book Blink is coining mucho bling for Malcolm Gladwell, yet in 1997 Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article called "The Sports Taboo: Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls," which made exactly the same argument as Larry Summers made about what is innately different in the capabilities of males and females -- that men have a larger standard deviation on many traits, so there are more men at the top and bottom of the bell curves.
Archive 2005-02-27
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We love writing about bands and singers that emerge from the tangled undergrowth and come blinking into the bright glare of publicity.
The Sun
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Miguel blinked, appalled and overwhelmed before rationally reasoning with himself, as all mathematicians can.
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He tried not to let his irritation show as he blinked in the glare of the television lights.
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what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
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blink away tears
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He felt his skin abrade as he skidded off the tarp, but he lay still, apart from eyes blinking in the sudden light.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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A small red light blinked, indicating that the water level was rapidly falling.
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It did not quite happen in the blink of eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tom blinked in surprise, then recovered himself.
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But no matter how skilfully it's done, it shows somewhere: the stretched grimace, the unblinking eyes or in the body below, if it hasn't been done to match.
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With a blink, his eyes adjusted and decided it was either a wild dog or a wolf or a coyote.
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Robert blinked in the sudden semi-darkness, the only illumination being the moonlight which shone through cracks in the curtains.
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Ok, lets say you are a mage. Sometimes you need to Frost Nova and Blink away quickly. You can't do them both at the same time, so you set up a sequence to do it!
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I was concentrating so hard on the game that I didn't even blink until a foul ball hit me straight in the eye.
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He blinked in the bright sunlight.
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I have come to this world , stark - naked ; am I to back , blink, in the same stark - nakedness?
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“I’m not a blinker,” I lie, mostly because it’s embarrassing to be called a blinker.
Rules for Secret Keeping
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Yet despite all this there was an air of conservation, the odd glimpse of the Old World in a narrow dingy lane where a dray horse shifted his weight from one hock to the other, blinking lazy lashes above the nosebag containing his lunch.
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He touched her lightly under the chin with a solitary finger, a common exhibition of affection she had noticed, and the look in his eyes made Sara blink back tears of happiness.
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She was blinking rapidly to keep the tears back, aware it was no time for tears.
A Plague of Angels
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Carl waited with his blinker on at the shoulder of the road for a break in traffic.
The Big Cross
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The blinkers will not hinder his progress.
The Sun
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We slapped the blinkers on him in his work and I felt he showed a little bit of improvement but certainly not enough to think he could win.
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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.
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Residents didn't even blink when the chemicals company set up business in town.
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The sound of my name shook my concentration, and I blinked once.
The Haunted
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He cringed away from Arun, eyes wide, then blinked and appeared to recognize the trapper.
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It is no wonder with this blinkered attitude that the Capital of Culture bid was a non-starter.
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After a romantic daydream (not of love but of adventure) and blinking, the doe-eyed girl hugged her books to her bosom and proceeded to him with a pale face.
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All true, but also all tending to indicate a certain blinkered quality to the “anti-Americanism” frame.
Matthew Yglesias » “Pro-American”
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As you blink, it will naturally spread without tugging at the shadow.
The Sun
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The real problem is I don't want to be a blinking teacher at all, despite the fact that I like the children.
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But New England's offensive line hasn't blinked much.
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She just stood there, staring at him with unblinking eyes.
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It was going to be about who would blink first.
The Sun
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Meet the robot lobster and the android that not only smiles, frowns and blinks but also recognizes people and talks back.
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Robyn blinked back unexpected tears and leant forward to place a log carefully on to the mound of hot red twigs.
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The refugees stumbled toward military buses, blinking at the harsh lights.
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The rapid movement of an object towards the eye triggers the blink reflex.
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Mine management needed to change, to rid itself of possible archaic practices, rigid structures and "blinkered" thinking if it wanted to extend the lives of mines, Mineral and Energy Affairs
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Aidan woke, blinking up into the gray of predawn, confusion at his whereabouts making him question the heavy oaken beams above his head, the draft from a rattling set of windows, and the dampness in the smelly blankets covering him.
Earl of Durkness
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I can see her now, fingering her brittle bangs, blinking so fast that this microscopist she's found might be alarmed if he were to look at her, but he has not done much of that; instead he peers at the monitor, uses a sterling accessory to show her the worms.
Florida
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Positions changed in the blink of an eye - exciting for fans but dangerous for drivers.
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Signal your intention to change the lane in good time by using the blinker and if necessary, by hand signalling, says the handbook.
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By means of this algebraic method of thinking, objects are grasped spatially, in the blink of an eye.
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The National Museum has an exhibit that makes my eyes blink.
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The only problem is my vacuum cleaner is on the blink.
The Sun
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The application of blinkers worked a treat on this filly at Ayr last time when she romped home by eight lengths in a maiden race.
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Your link's on the blink.
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Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill.
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In other words, a lot of white folks will not even blink twice at this kind of negative iconography because they are enured to it by their racist culture.
McCain Campaign's Ad Spending Now Nearly 100 Percent Devoted To Attack Ads
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But the grand, and indeed substantially primary and generic aspect of the Consummation of Terror remains still to be looked at; nay blinkard
The French Revolution
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Finally, there are some DVD-ROM extras in the form of a screenplay viewer and weblinks.
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Jack only switched his right blinker on and turned towards Route 301 instead.
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Washington, Lincoln, Jackson, and Franklin stared at her with unblinking eyes, un-changing faces, and green hair.
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You get blinkered by routine and one of the great things in this business is the variety it affords you.
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It simply points out that some folks who can buy a rackful without blinking probably will not.
What to Do With Your Gift From George W.
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It is just that the racegoers look as if they might have been wearing blinkers when they got dressed that morning.
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The sword arced at eye level past the boy in the doorway, who didn't even blink.
The Reign of Istar
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A shape formed, grew, and then remained —” It’s in replica,” Dr. Blinklotz explained.
RC: HtCGtK, A Hitch « Unknowing
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I sort of blinked, decided I was dreaming again - I often dream there's someone ringing or knocking at the door - and drifted back to sleep.
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You're not a horse with blinkers.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
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Blinking produces tears that can help moisten and lubricate your eyes.
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When Christian does not protest and only peers back unblinkingly, Lucas allows his hand to lightly graze the downy skin of Christian's cheek before gingerly laying it upon the blonde's hand.
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But arrived 2000 when, walk into an Internet bar casually, computer screen is right the penguin figure annunciate that next horn blink ceaselessly is worn QQ already on the pace drive.
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I closed my eyes automatically as he kissed me, and the word love blinked red and then black on the insides of my eyelids.
The Boys Next Door
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Through the veil she saw the blink of gold, the flash of a silver ring on a pale wraith's finger.
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The astonished lone drinker blinked when three foaming pints of Stella appeared on the bar before him.
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What a myopic, blinkered clod their letters page editor must be.
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She lay there for a few seconds before blinking the tears back.
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The only problem is my vacuum cleaner is on the blink.
The Sun
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Oh, don't look so chopfallen!" he went on, scornfully, when Paul blinked.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction
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She shot an ice-charged projectile down at the scimitars, but the whirling cutters diced it to ribbons in the blink of an eye.
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We'd barely unpacked the tree when a call came through and before I could blink, they were all armouring themselves up and heading out the door.
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I have a very blinkered view of dance, it just has to be ballet, and then it really must be tutus and tiaras.
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Launched in March, Kepler finished its electronics check-out and turned to its principal mission this week, staring at roughly 100,000 nearby stars for tell-tale "blinks" caused by eclipsing planets.
Kepler's search for another Earth begins
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He's a genius with a cue in his hands, he's world No. 1, he's the defending champion, blinking you're missing, he's the rocket, Ronnie O'Sullivan!
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I unlatched the gate and edged past Heike, who blinked and snorted irritably.
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Players learn from each other and the moment you put the blinkers on is when you stop learning.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dog ludicrously albeit lovingly christened Precious Baby by Ted's late wife and resolutely called PB by Ted himself - hesitated at the doorway and blinked out at the street, where the autumn rain was falling in the sort of steady waves that presaged alengthy and bone-chilling storm.
A Traitor to Memory
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‘There have been a few old biddies here today who've been confused about how to vote… ‘said one broadcaster without blinking.’
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Blame the people who run the Union, the Union student presidents during that time and the blinkard Union alums who helped ram this through.
Badger Herald: News Updates
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And on Wired News, these photos I shot at the convention this week, including the one at left of a young woman overwhelmed by blinking, bleeping things inside Microsoft's Xbox pavilion.
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Well, since the "clustering" of water only lasts for a few picoseconds, making an eye-blink seem like a lifetime in comparison, the matter is moot, anyway.
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In other words, electrical activity was seen to develop in the cerebellum in connection with eyeblink conditioning.
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It could also mean the driver in front of you is going to turn left or that the blinker is still blinking from a previous turn.
Driving in Mexico
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I ran the entire bath but it was too cold and then the blinking water ran out.
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She needed to blink away tears.
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Nay what are all errors and perversities of his, even those stealings of ribbons aimless confused miseries and vagabondisms, if we will interpret them kindly, but the blinkard dazzlements and staggerings to and fro of a man sent on an errand he is too weak for, by a path he cannot yet find?
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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The June light, now approaching the middle hours of the day, and radiant with sunshine, fell in long golden shafts across the body of the choir and into the ranks of the brothers and obedientiaries opposite, gilding half a face here and throwing its other half into exaggerated shade, there causing dazzled eyes in a blanched face to blink away the brightness.
The Rose Rent
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He won twice for today's rider last summer and the blinkers are back on.
The Sun
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From the walls of the room jagged flashes of blue-white lightning clawed out at the creature, outlining it in a momentary nimbus of sparks and power which faded in the blink of an eye.
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Afterwards, blink or squeeze your eyes shut to relax them.
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This rhetoric could only reassure if you were a blinking idiot and hadn't seen any news coverage of the current situation at all.
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She gave Sasha a short blink from her light and heard the car motor start.
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I can't hear the news since my radio went on the blink.
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She blinked in surprise at his agility.
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With a blink, his eyes adjusted and decided it was either a wild dog or a wolf or a coyote.
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Frankie blinked in the bright light, then turned his gaze reluctantly to the arched alcove on his left.
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It just "blinks" and it goes very fast but still it is kind of annoying in the long run ...
ASP.NET Forums
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Yvon's Paris" offers dozens of glorious photographs, many filling two pages -- flat paper magically alive with moments stolen from time: flower sellers, bargemen, weary blinkered horses, a boating party in the Bois de Boulogne.
Graham Robb's "Parisians" and Yvon's Paris, photos of Pierre Yves Petit
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Via Locus Online their "blinks" in the left column I found the article Sci-Fi's Brave New World, about science fiction as mythmaking.
Science fiction as myth
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I stare unblinkingly at the woman as I say it.
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He blinked and stared, and he blinked again.
The Broken God
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Dante blinked away the black spots flecking his vision, sucked in a ragged breath.
Etched in Bone
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Why do you use the term blink as if this is a game to see who will give in, who will not and therefore who will win?
First Read
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Unless conditions are extreme, you cannot win a Test in the blink of an eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then he blinks, once, a bit slowly, like a ventriloquist dummy.
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Perhaps she hopes to halve the processing time it currently takes to sift through the various minerals she must analyze, or perhaps she needs a younger version to 'aimlessly' crawl toward that Army weapons depot, blinking her 'eyes' in rapid succession at key strategic weak spots without arousing suspicion.
Gawker
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It made my entire desktop blink on each ring, with a centered popup showing who was calling and what number they were using.
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We love writing about bands and singers that emerge from the tangled undergrowth and come blinking into the bright glare of publicity.
The Sun
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Thus, at Treblinka, the memorial to those killed consists of 17,000 granite shards surrounding a large obelisk broken down the middle.
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The man's hooded eyes stared back, unblinking, into his own squinting, gaze.
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Every blink set off fireworks behind his eyelids.
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One boy assumes the head, turning it this way and that, blinking furiously, another boy was in charge of the lion's hindquarters and its wagging tail.
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Her gray eyes filled with tears, but she blinked them back resolutely.
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From the tops of these rats the size of house cats watched them with unblinking eyes.
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I had read somewhere that all the greatest discoveries had been made in the blink of an eye.
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Thus, the wind renders me unable to see for all the blinking and eye-watering attempts to rid my eye of said debris.
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Albinos regularly turn their heads to the side and roll their eyes in a circular motion in an attempt to find a favourable axis of sight; they suffer from rapid nystagmus, and blink constantly.
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When I did no more than dumbly blink back he straightened and gave me a rather speculative look before finally breaking into a slow smirk.
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That came when wearing blinkers for the first time.
The Sun
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Keep your eyes peeled , Lil , and tell me if you see a blink of sun on those hills ahead.
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Either mechanical tapping or electrical stimulation of the supraorbital regions may evoke the blink reflex.
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He blinked quickly and then turned to look at the half open door where his mother was leaning inside.
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They emerge blinking in bewilderment at the unfamiliar daylight and smells of the bush.
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McKinnon blinked, which was about as far as he ever permitted himself to go in the way of emotional expression.
SAN ANDREAS
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All of this leads me to a question that has been sitting heavy on my mind since a non-specific person * blink blink* took a couple of pictures at the Devil's Slide off-ramp … somewhere laller-ing about the dusty regions of the Wasatch mountains …
Jenny On the Spot: Woman, mother, glitterer, friend. I *heart* coffee.
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They also claimed that printing and binding would make such sized books economically unviable, which is a claim that had me blinking at its self-evident absurdity.
Greasing the Wheel of Time for all it's worth
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She stood in front of the mirror and applied mascara and kohl to her eyes, blinking a few times.
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We were in 24 hours of daylight now, but fog and iceblinks obscured our vision much of the time.
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The robot blinked once, accessing its database of snappy comebacks before selecting an answer.
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She blinked back sudden unexpected tears and twisted round uneasily.
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A quarter-century of industrial thinking originating from Europe and North America continues to blinker us from this reality.
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‘Easy enough for you to say,’ I'd reminded him, watching him shift the blinker on as we turned off the main road.
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He looked up, blinking, and it wrung me to see that his lashes were wet with unshed tears.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Dawn knows elevations and candlepower, stuff about flashes and blinks and buoys.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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I heard a humming and the dozen fluorescent lights started to flicker on and I blinked, squinting at the bright light.
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Another blink, and I was in form-fitting jeans, a green spaghetti-strap tank, and a gray duster.
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Electrical stimulation of the supraorbital nerve in the supraorbital foramen was used to evoke the blink reflex.
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While whoever publishes Clinic's work might like to have a listen to the closing 'Run Gospel Singer' with relation to 'C.Q.', they might also feel a slab of envy at 'Wild Strawberries', built on repeated riffs, distorted vocals that simultaneously recall Ade Blackburn's gnomic vocalising and takes it several stages further and overdriven garagey thrash at the end of which it seems it's just a race to see who blinks first.
The Line Of Best Fit
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But that seems a very narrow and blinkered view.
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However, you fail to hold her gaze for very long; it's quick, brief, a camera flash of time that dazes you, makes you blink.
Are You Okay?
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The first time I saw Wiwin, she looked like a wizened old woman, with wrinkly, hairy skin and big, unblinking eyes.
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Next comes the lighting rig: spotlights, blinkers, winkers, everything but lasers, blazing like Luna Park.
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Then there it was again, a blink of light in the grass about three yards away.
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She held the tears back and continued observing, blinking a few times so her vision could clear.
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The attorneys blinked at the use of the word stuff to describe masterworks of the quality of the Degas they were empowered to protect.
Generous Death
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There are people huddled together who blink and stare.
The Crossing-Place
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He blinked in the bright sunlight.
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It seems to us so extraordinary, yet the storyteller does not blink an eyelid.
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I went out there with a clear head and the horse blinkers on to try to do my job and to do it well.
Times, Sunday Times
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One more mistimed challenge and his international career would have been over in the blink of an eye.
The Sun
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There were breakouts from Sobibor and Treblinka.
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He was an awesome sight as he went into the dangerous places, daring a centre half or a goalkeeper to blink.
Times, Sunday Times
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His eyes were open, but unseeing, hazed over with a frightening coldness, unblinking.
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Of course I joined in = D. Matt looked rather normal plus a little bumfluff, James looked a iccle chubby but still cute and he had a Blink teeshirt on and Charlie ..
Fuct-up-girl Diary Entry
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Searching for a physical identity now, I feel like a horse wearing blinkers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hadleigh blinked and covered her eyes wishing that her pounding headache would stop pulsating behind her eyes.
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I watched as his eyes fell shut of their own accord, watched as his breathing slowed, and watched as his eyes snapped open again, blinking away their bleariness in confusion.
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Neither of them would blink an eye at my check stubs or grocery lists.
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He was blinking in the strong sunlight.
Bomber
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The only problem is my vacuum cleaner is on the blink.
The Sun
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Anna pushes the door open, blinks in the sudden light and turns to look at him.
SEA MUSIC
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“See that,” she said, and of course he did, for he was gawping and blinking at it, the nubble out of the babba’s belly.
At Swim, Two Boys
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The slot machines are surrounded by armies of meter men and women with plastic containers, either pulling handfuls of coins out of or putting fistfuls of coins into the blinking and barking machines.
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The signal lights blinking only amber meant that one hapless policeman made a valiant effort to control traffic which seemed to swamp him from all directions.
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Drums beating, cymbals clashing, the dragons blinked and leaped about athletically.
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Becca blinked a few more times before creeping out of the shower and relocking the door.
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In the world of military intelligence, much time is spent trying to distinguish "blinks" -- unpremeditated random actions -- from "winks" -- deliberate moves designed to communicate intent and draw out a response.
Nick Mabey: Sorting Blinks From Winks In The Copenhagen End Game
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Confused, I blinked open an eye and found one of our lab buddies staring down at me with an amused glitter in his bright blue eyes.
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Within six months, he was able to smile and blink.
Times, Sunday Times
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We love writing about bands and singers that emerge from the tangled undergrowth and come blinking into the bright glare of publicity.
The Sun
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Me: * blink blink* Um ... do you want to go visit him?
Ana-ng Diary Entry
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When the sun shone clear the water on beyond became a shimmering blazing shield of white-hot metal; and an hour of uninterrupted gazing upon it would have turned an argus into a blinkard.
From Place to Place
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Humanity had begun to chart the universe and impose its own blinkered logic upon it.
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The brightness of the snow made him blink.
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The sides of his lips curled upwards ever so slightly that if you had even blinked for a millisecond you would have missed it.
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It was all over in the blink of an eye.
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Partner in Blinkhorn's chartered accountancy firm.
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It's real great to watch them cos they blink on and off all the time.
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I particularly liked the vehicle's side blinker.
