How To Use Blinks In A Sentence
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In a projected image of a street scene various items are removed and displaced (seemingly at random) between tenth-of-a-second artificial blinks.
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I grab her chin forcefully with my hand and pull her face towards mine, watching her as she blinks furiously and opens her eyes wide.
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She blinks a few times, shakes her head to get the hair out of her eyes, and begins her stare anew.
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The cat cleans its luxurious fur, blinks its eyes at you and begins to purr.
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Some are found worldwide such as water blinks and brittle-bladder fern.
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The entire ship shudders from the massive shock and the power blinks off for a minute then flickers back on.
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She blinks her blue beady eyes and wrinkles her small pink nose and puts on this squeaky little sugar-mouse voice.
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He'll have to hope Labor blinks even if no new evidence is produced.
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The penguins are ‘real’, as much as the sky, the northern light and those iceblinks from the icicles.
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He is convinced that every time you click "send," your message goes to a clunky government keyword sniffer that, on finding any of the naughty words it's looking for, blinks red lights at some snoozing functionary's desk.
Davis Sweet: Jihad, Bomb, Nuke, Anthrax, Screw Carnivore...
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That is, the rabbit still blinks to the air puff but not to the tone.
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He kept giving quick blinks.
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Well, purchasing power is up for sure and nobody blinks at a thousand rupees for a ticket anymore.
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Blinks and saccadic eye movements (associated with reading, while the participant was awake) could easily be distinguished from the horizontal slow eye movements that appeared in Stage 1 sleep.
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Blinks is so called because its tiny greenish-white flowers rarely open fully, fancifully as if they were reluctant to face the sun.
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She spots Shannon's tear-stained face and blinks.
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It is an eye open to the reader as it translates its complex turns, blinks, and refraction onto the page.
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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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Eva looks down at the confection of satin and lace, and blinks.
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Last night it emerged that police may seek to interview the girl even though she can only communicate using blinks and facial expressions.
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A couple of blinks as he looks from the man next to them to Rama and back…
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She blinks for a short while, her eyes accustoming.
Lily
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He blinks, barely noticing her black bob of hair, chromatophore-tinted shadows artfully tuned around her eyes.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Trials with excessive eye movements, blinks, or blockage were rejected.
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If the adversaries can't agree on a ‘fair’ plea, one side holds out until the other blinks, or they duke it out in trial, where relevant facts are the grist for a good defense.
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Confronted with death, the eye blinks, opens wide, or grows dim.
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Martina blinks away tears, hardly able to catch her breath with her lips tightly clamped shut.
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When it was time to build the fire, Quent Stiles and John Blinks, our woodcutting and pit-digging Harvard Medical School students, rounded up volunteers and marched off with ax and saw to a clump of trees.
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As everyone knows, Tinseltown is all about the lawsuits and the brinkmanship of the helmers and studio heads, and who blinks first.
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A passage in Worsley's Endurance describes how early Antarctic sailors searched the clouds for iceblinks.
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The blinks and other movements of her eyes, the occasional smiles, the sleep-wake pattern are all typical of a vegetative condition, manifesting reflex reactions, not consciousness.
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I take long blinks and rarely look at the camera's screen.
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The Cambrian Explosion, the Permian and Cretaceous Extinctions ---all blinks of the eye.
MINUTES TO BURN
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Tony thinks Brown's a 'blinker', someone who blinks in a stand-off.
Archive 2008-02-01
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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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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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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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Finally, there are some DVD-ROM extras in the form of a screenplay viewer and weblinks.
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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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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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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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Then he blinks, once, a bit slowly, like a ventriloquist dummy.
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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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Dawn knows elevations and candlepower, stuff about flashes and blinks and buoys.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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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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Anna pushes the door open, blinks in the sudden light and turns to look at him.
SEA MUSIC
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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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Then he blinks, once, a bit slowly, like a ventriloquist dummy.
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His voice remains level, but he blinks quickly and hard.
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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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A fluorescent light, for instance, actually blinks on and off sixty times a second, but most people perceive the light as continuous.
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A team of Japanese scientists, led by Toshiyuki Hata of the Kagawa University School of Medicine, is using 3-D ultrasound to count fetal blinks and yawns, and to document what they call expressions like smiling, scowling, and sticking out the tongue.
Origins
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Now, with a mind that is probably as sharp as it ever was, the only movements she can make are blinks and small yawns.
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On the matter of generic pharmaceuticals, it seems to be a case of who blinks first.
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Her frown was the crossword puzzle, her blinks the baseball scores.
Villa Incognito
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He kind of blinks at that; but it don't fetch him.
Torchy
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He slowly rolls to his feet, blinks, and brushes the white ash-like powder off himself.
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Controls whether the error icon blinks an error is set.
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She blinks slowly, and another small tear spills on to her cheek.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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That such a perfect title blinks in and out of view while he's groggy -- before he's even quite come up with the idea for his grand play, or at least stated it out loud -- is a crucial irony that itself represents the whole of writer / director Charlie Kaufman's bleak portrait of living inside your creative mind, never to understand the perfection you seek before death arrives, inevitably.
Jog - The Blog
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The persecution lasted twenty-eight years, with few "blinks" to take the chill of horror out of the air.
Sketches of the Covenanters
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The RFBug is a little pink keychain fob with an LED inside that blinks furiously when it's brought into range of radio frequencies between 1MHz and 2. 5GHz -- your basic data/cellular/cordless phone spectrum.
Boing Boing: January 27, 2002 - February 2, 2002 Archives
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I think Cheever used to point to George Plimpton's pad and tell him, "Okay put down two colons, then the word 'blinks', and now two more colons," back when he'd be interviewed for The Paris Review.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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Photograph and information on this species, commonly known as Blinks, found in damp places.
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Later, he delighted guests by cuddling a robot baby that reacts happily to hugs and play, blinks its eyes and even cries like a real infant.
