[
UK
/blˈɪŋkɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈbɫɪŋkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫɪŋkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
ADJECTIVE
-
closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly
he stood blinking in the bright sunlight -
informal intensifiers
what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
you flaming idiot
a crashing bore
a bloody fool
How To Use blinking In A Sentence
- Even I, a tolerant representative of the Middle Way, found myself blinking at this unquestionably Romish style of adornment. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- He admired Machiavelli for recognizing that sometimes our ends are mutually exclusive and for facing that fact unblinkingly.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- A red light blinking in the answer machine slowly flicked on and off.
- We love writing about bands and singers that emerge from the tangled undergrowth and come blinking into the bright glare of publicity. The Sun
- what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
- 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
- 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.