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Example sentences for "blink"

Lexicographically close words:
blindman; blindness; blinds; bline; bling; blinked; blinkers; blinking; blinks; blip
  1. Yet, 'spite of drink, he could not blink Remembrance of his loss; To drown a care like his, required Enough to drown a horse.

  2. For whaur the can'le-flame should be Was naither blink nor shine-- The bairnie turned its face to me An' I kent that it was mine.

  3. Not much, sir--only a stream; but there is an ice blink right ahead, all along the horizon.

  4. A dark sinister scowl overhung the blink under the cloud-bank to the southward, and the dovkies which had enlivened their progress hitherto forsook the channel, as if they distrusted the weather.

  5. All I could do was squeeze her hand and blink my eyes.

  6. Leon walked past Ben's glaring eyes without a blink of recognition, but I came along a moment later and promptly began explaining the mystery to him.

  7. Mrs. Courtenay, with a subtle blink in her eyes.

  8. Gigue laughed, showing a row of very white strong teeth under his grizzled moustache, as he accepted a cup of tea from Cicely's hand, who gave him a meaning blink of her dark eyes as she demurely waited upon him.

  9. At last a dark line of standing timber rose against the sky, and when a light or two began to blink among the trees Clay knew he was nearer the mill.

  10. Jimmy could see the yacht's anchor light not far away and the yellow blink from her saloon windows, but he could hear nothing that suggested preparations for sending off a boat.

  11. I know it, and I am not going to blink it.

  12. For the most part, however, they were rather pleased faces that watched the three strangers out of sight, the last long beams from the sunset making blink the eyes of nearly all Lisconnel.

  13. And this was what he shouted: "The blood of Blink Bonny!

  14. She can't help it--she's got eight full crosses of Blink Bonny blood.

  15. It will not do to blink the fact of Marlowe's Atheism, as is done by the two gentlemen who took up the cudgels on his behalf in the Pall Mall Gazette.

  16. The country is delightful, more cannot be said; it is very beautiful, a perfect joy when we get a blink of sun to see it in.

  17. Well, I give in, Mr. Quelson; perhaps my friend Blink would like to put a few questions.

  18. By this time Mr. Blink had been pulled down in his seat by Mr. Sanderson, the critic of the Skyrocket, and order was restored.

  19. They wrangled passionately over this, and Blink finally declared that if Verdi was not dead he ought to be.

  20. Behind it was a continuous ice-blink and on our left, to the north, a deep blue "water sky.

  21. By noon on January 11 loose pack came into view, with a strong blink of heavier pack to the south.

  22. She was so confounded that she could do nothing but blink for a long time.

  23. She continued to blink at close quarters, and her eyelashes and eyebrows seemed shabby too.

  24. And we blink at the stars, and they blink at us, and we feel strangely unreal and turned about.

  25. As he watched, a blink of light crept out of the snow, grew brighter, and swept back to them.

  26. She was also very cold, and greatly relieved, when a blink of light rose out of the snow.

  27. Sam Brent would send you or me or any man into a gun-fight, or a posse, or a jail, and never blink his eye, if he thought it was good business for him.

  28. White-Eye, watching Baxter, saw him blink and in turn watch Pino's fingers as he twisted and untwisted the bits of paper.

  29. He had too slight esteem socially for Dryfoos to conceal a fact from him that he might have wished to blink with others.

  30. Finally, every now and then, Ross had to jiggle off course just enough so that the warning blink of light would alert him and keep him from falling asleep.

  31. A light on the panel began to blink at a rate which increased rapidly as they veered farther away from their original course.

  32. I thought for the furious blink of the moment, that he had struck her.

  33. Then in a blink the countenance of the redfaced man went from calm to rage.

  34. Before he had had the chance to blink or move a muscle, Freddy Farmer had pinned him cold to the dawn sky.

  35. For a little under six hours he had been driving the Lockheed across the cold grey waters of the North Atlantic with only the dark of night, the stars, and an occasional blink of Freddy Farmer's navigation lights for companionship.

  36. You can't blink the thing away, my dear: she belongs to some one else, and you've done with her.

  37. It was only when the two figures disappeared over a ridge that the three watching ones seemed to gasp in concert, and to blink their eyelids, as though awaking from a dream.

  38. Not the tiniest mouse nor the most spectral shade could enter or slip away beneath the open archway without undergoing inspection from that omniscient eye, that seemed never to blink nor to grow weary.

  39. The sun alone, shining with spendthrift glory, flooding the narrow streets and low houses with a late afternoon stream of color, was the sole inhabitant who did not blink at us, bovinely, with dulled vision.

  40. I could not blink the fact that although I had openly disagreed with him on every point of ethics and economics, I was still responsible for him as a guest.

  41. Well, I don't wonder that they rather prefer to blink the fact; but it is a fact, nevertheless, and pretty notorious.

  42. Why blink a thing because it is unpleasant?


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blink" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    avoid; bat; blench; blink; blinking; cast; cringe; dodge; duck; evade; fade; firefly; flash; flicker; flinch; fudge; funk; glance; glimmer; glimmering; glimpse; glisten; glitter; glowworm; jib; peek; peep; quail; recoil; reel; reflection; retreat; scamp; scintilla; scintillate; scintillation; shimmer; shimmering; shrink; shy; sidestep; signal; skim; skimp; slant; slight; slur; spangle; spark; sparkle; start; swerve; tinsel; twinkle; twinkling; weasel; wince; wink