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Example sentences for "blinks"

Lexicographically close words:
bling; blink; blinked; blinkers; blinking; blip; blips; blis; blisful; bliss
  1. The belles of the evening were Miss Huggins, the Widow Blush, Miss Lumpkins, Mrs. Austin and Miss Blinks all of Worcester, Mass.

  2. For here again, Blinks and Jinks, does the railroad business differ from yours.

  3. Blinks in his big retail store knows that courtesy is one of the invaluable and irreplaceable assets of his business.

  4. Blinks and Jinks both know that in their business courtesy comes through contact.

  5. I think I am much older than the eagle cock That blinks and blinks on Ballygawley Hill, And he is the oldest thing under the moon.

  6. A demure, well-mannered, polite animal of the feline species reposes on a rug at her feet, and blinks a pair of intensely green eyes in the sunshine with a look of calm, philosophical happiness beautiful to see.

  7. How do you know that Blinks has had a raise in salary?

  8. It is a long, skinny building that stands on one leg like a stork and blinks down disdainfully from its thousand windows on ordinary fifteen-story shacks.

  9. What's Blinks going to do with his new noiseless typewriter?

  10. My own dear people live a long, long time, So I am young; but measure by your years And I am older than the eagle cock Who blinks and blinks on Ballydawley Hill, And he's the oldest thing under the moon.

  11. On Aikenshaw the sun blinks braw, The burn rins blithe and fain: There’s nought wi’ me I wadna gie To look thereon again.

  12. She gae a blink out ower them a', 65 And three blinks to her Geordie; But when she saw his een fast bound, A swoon fell in this lady.

  13. The lanes of open water, as foreshadowed by the water-blinks that Ferriss had noted in the morning, were frequent; alternating steadily with hummocks and pressure-ridges.

  14. The next morning was clear for two hours after breakfast, and when Ferriss returned from his task of path-finding he reported to Bennett that he had seen a great many water-blinks off to the southwest.

  15. Our man--we will call him Blinks and his road the Great Midland--has never lived or worked in another town.

  16. Blinks keeps a bit of watchfulness for that "value package" down in the corner of his mind while a thousand things press in upon it.

  17. Blinks starts to say "yes," then hesitates.

  18. His memory was right--but Blinks takes no chances.

  19. Blinks has a little way of talking about courtesy--which in effect goes something after the same fashion.

  20. As a matter of fact Blinks is rather well paid.

  21. Some of them had sent elaborate floats into the line of march, but Blinks had been content to have his two boys march, carrying transparencies that did honor to the traffic facilities of the Great Midland.

  22. And the telegraph company has many things also to say to Blinks there in the old brick depot.

  23. That means business and Blinks knows that it means business.

  24. Yet the wonder of it is that Blinks endures it all--not only endures but actually thrives under it.

  25. The young ticket clerk tears madly through a few dozen tariffs, scratches his head blankly--and Blinks has to jump into the breach.

  26. At least that seems to be their assumption if Blinks can judge from their letters.

  27. When the nervous, hurried, accurate transaction is done you might expect Blinks to rail against the judgment of travelers who wait until the last minute to buy tickets involving a trip over a group of railroads.

  28. It has begun to realize Blinks and his fellows are the tentacles by which it is in contact with its territory.

  29. The cat blinks sleepily in the sunshine and dreams of a future unmarred by suds and a slippery foothold.

  30. He or she who is swelled full of conjecture whenever anybody commits an innocent indiscretion, as an owl blinks and ruffles up its feathers when the bobolink sings.

  31. He slyly pushes through a crack at the bottom of the cave, raises himself on the points of his closed claws, and blinks with his diverging eyes.

  32. She blinks her cunning eyes, and their blue-black pupils become large and round.

  33. On Aikenshaw the sun blinks braw, The burn rins blithe and fain: There's nought wi' me I wadna gie To look thereon again.

  34. Nay, even oil itself, yet lingering at long intervals in a little absurd glass pot, with a knob in the bottom like an oyster, blinks and sulks at newer lights every night, like its high and dry master in the House of Lords.

  35. Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall.

  36. The sun blinks sweetly on yon shaw, But sweeter far on Woodhouselee, And dear I like his setting beam For sake o' ane sae dear to me.

  37. Nae joy, nae pleasure, blinks on me, My only jo an' dearie, O.

  38. The curtain went up, and Blinks stalked across with his accustomed air of intolerable stupidity.

  39. At this moment the hated Blinks arrived in the green-room.

  40. The next night the charade was ass-ass-in, and Blinks went on for the first two syllables.

  41. Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlets plays; Come let us spend the lightsome days, In the birks of Aberfeldy.

  42. The sun blinks blythe on yon town, Among the broomy braes sae green; But my delight in yon town, And dearest pleasure, is my Jean.

  43. Nae star blinks thro' the driving sleet; Tak pity on my weary feet, And shield me frae the rain, jo.

  44. Her house sae bien, her curch sae clean I wat she is a daintie chuckie; And cheery blinks the ingle-gleed O' Lady Onlie, honest Lucky!

  45. After we had rumbled on for some miles, enjoying blinks of cold sunshine, enduring heavy scudding showers, the landscape began to soften considerably.

  46. It was a dim day of clouds and watery blinks of sunshine.

  47. We have had a few--a very few--watery blinks of sun before, but the rain and sleet always conquered.

  48. Ephraim Blinks with his fiddle had stopped there on his way to play at some neighboring merry-making, and had acquainted them with the result of processioning Purdee's land.

  49. Blinks carried his violin hung upon his back; the sharp timbre of the wind, cutting through the leafless boughs of the stunted woods, had a kindred fibrous resonance.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blinks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.