How To Use Unseeing In A Sentence
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The wounded are lying on the floors and on beds, their unseeing eyes staring blankly ahead.
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In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, pass through all the stages of daybreak to the deep purple of its outlined mass nimbed gloriously with the gold of the rising sun.
Within the Tides
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The wounded are lying on the floors and on beds, their unseeing eyes staring blankly ahead.
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He turned his unseeing eyes upon her, his grip tightening upon her fingers.
Earl of Durkness
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He was leaning against the trunk of the tree, staring with blank unseeing eyes at the ground.
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And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh, and buttock, than which I could reach no higher up the mighty frame of him.
Chapter 17
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His blond hair was moist with his perspiration, and although his brown eyes were open, they were glazed and unseeing.
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My sister, clutching her body as though in pain, rocked back and forth on her heels; lips open to silent sobs, eyes starring out empty and unseeing.
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Her mask had gone and her eyes were staring, wide with obvious panic but unseeing.
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And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh and buttock, than which I could reach no higher up the mighty frame of him.
The Jacket (Star-Rover)
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When Blue goes to the park to investigate, he indeed finds a dead body, its eyes open and unseeing.
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After Ian was gone, Renee remained on the couch, her eyes open, unblinking, and unseeing.
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Anyone wanting to visit Beszel or Ul Qoma needs to take special training courses and pass a test in "unseeing" and what is appropriate behavior generally.
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Meryl stared unseeingly ahead, teeth clenched, rigid with an icy rage.
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Ark stared unseeing into the distance, shaking his head. ‘I can't believe it,’ he murmured.
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My gaze drifted to the first guard, his eyes still wide open, forever gazing but unseeing, and I shook my head.
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Nick stared back at him, unseeing, his breath coming in ragged gasps.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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His eyes opened slightly, unseeing, totally engrossed by the concentration required of him.
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The difficulty with "unseeing," as here, is that it so often appears to happen just a little too late.
The City & The City
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She gazed unseeingly across the room, ashamed of her own weakness, all too aware of her vulnerability.
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A pair of brown eyes stare, unseeing, at the hospital ceiling.
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‘No,’ I said, reaching unseeingly towards the direction of her voice, trying to keep her from leaving.
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He twitched there on the ground; eyes open, yet unseeing.
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In the hallway Greenfield was staring at the wood panelling with unseeing eyes.
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Morgan stared down at the carpet with unseeing eyes.
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She walked past him, unseeing, as she looked at the flowers in a nearby window of a floral shoppe.
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He was sitting as still as a statue with eyes rolled up, unseeing, in his head.
Master of Mirrors
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And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh and buttock, than which
Chapter 17
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Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.
THE KANAKA SURF
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She sits on the bottom stair, clutching the note in her hand - eyes unseeing through the tears suspended on their surface.
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For just a moment she lay still in bed, breathing hard with her eyes wide open and unseeing in the darkness.
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Rosa turned her head towards her mother, unseeing.
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A man had lain feverish and unseeing on a pallet in the hut, apparently alone.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Daniel is red-eyed from weeping, while John stares unseeingly out of a hotel window, disconsolate.
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She gasped for breath, eyes wide, frightened, and unseeing.
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looked through him with blank unseeing eyes
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She absently tapped her artistry pencil on the sketch paper as she stared out onto the whitened garden with unseeing eyes.
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A plethora of other problems transpierce him in every part of his being, however, like St. Sebastian's arrows; and the countenance that he raises to the unseeing skies is likewise that of a martyr.
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His eyes were open, but unseeing, hazed over with a frightening coldness, unblinking.
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Bored out of its mind, the monkey stares out of the cage with unseeing eyes.
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But she looked past me, her eyes glazed and unseeing.
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Her eyes were blind to them, unseeing as they tried to get her attention.
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Here, his mother’s first act was to take a clean little nightshirt from a drawer, sit him up, slip off the wet one and pop the dry over his head, he opening his eyes for a second, unseeingly, making a kind of growly noise in his throat, and dropping back fast asleep, before she had finished with the buttons.
The End of a Childhood
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The other drivers remain unseeing and oblivious, probably even to the moon.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
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Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.
THE KANAKA SURF
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Jutting from the veil, raw and planar, her face, like another of those skulls, stared out with deep, unseeing, hollow eyes.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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She turned back to the case, closed it, and cast an unseeing glance round the room.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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In the hallway Greenfield was staring at the wood panelling with unseeing eyes.
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For those, the stagiaires are confronted with several trays of neatly arranged rabbit heads, their fur and skin removed to expose the pink flesh beneath, their tiny teeth bared, their unseeing eyes all staring in the same direction.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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Her eyes gazed straight ahead, glazed and unseeing.
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His head rested at a slant, his unseeing eyes staring at the ground.
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Coming back, he knew she was aware of passing his bed, but she was unseeing, eyes as if sweeping the floor in front of every mote of dust.
THE OPEN DOOR
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His gaze unseeing into the night beyond the window.
Earl of Durkness
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What is the unseeing flame of darkness whose sparks are not the stars?
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But the dealers have made the most of such a complacent belief, conducting their sordid business in front of our unseeing eyes.
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She paused, staring unseeingly down at the blood-smeared rags as a wash of still unaccustomedly vivid memory pulled at her like the undertow of a wave.
Dark Moon of Avalon
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For there, stretched out in front of her, was Jack, his face slack, and his green eyes open but unseeing.
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Subtly, almost casually, Miéville constructs a metaphor for modern life in which our habits of "unseeing" allow us to ignore that which does not directly affect our familiar lives.
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He gazed out to the horizon with unseeing eyes.
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She sank back down to her chair, eyes wide, unseeing, lost in some fantasy of her own mind.
Darkness Becomes Her
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Christina sat staring unseeingly at the television screen in which her husband seemed so engrossed.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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Again the wavy lines, again the smoky mirror, again Rebecca stares into the polished obsidian, unseeing, uncomprehending.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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As Jess untied the Queen and helped her down, she saw Brian working hard to keep his expression stolid, to maintain the professional unseeing look all the guardsmen had long perfected.
Zombies vs. Unicorns
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In somnambulism and somniloquy, a child sits up in bed with eyes open but is ‘unseeing.’
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I stood in the doorway, unseeing, unhearing, unbelieving.