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Example sentences for "blurring"

Lexicographically close words:
bluntness; blunts; blur; blurr; blurred; blurry; blurs; blurt; blurted; blurting
  1. Orville knew she often spoke without pauses, blurring her words, but now her voice had become harsher and the blurring often made it difficult to understand her.

  2. It gave my eyes a blurring sensation, and I rubbed them and looked again.

  3. The blurring sensation makes my eyes ache and my brain tired.

  4. But the blurring of definitions and the elimination of detail that we find in modern pictorial art are not all of this ready-made character.

  5. We have spoken so far of only one factor in that process--namely, the democratisation of the English people which is in progress and the blurring of the lines between the classes.

  6. The post-mark made with the ink must dry quickly in order that the mail matter may be handled immediately without any blurring or smearing of the post-mark.

  7. The blurring of letterpress is a defect which often occurs with printing papers made of chemical wood pulp.

  8. There was an inner wrenching of Edward Dunsack's being, a blurring and infusion of blood in his eyes, a breath longer and more agonized than any before, and she was looking closely into the face of an overwhelming hatred.

  9. Outside, rain sleeted across the big windows with a steady faint drumming, blurring and dimming the view of the airfield where they would arrive.

  10. The tapestry kept blurring its outlines and shifting its colours, and she played with the work, becoming more and more absorbed in what Canterton was saying.

  11. The rain kept blurring my eye-glass, but it seemed to me that the rider was a schoolgirl with hair hanging down her back, and that her horse was a trifle lame.

  12. I had little doubt but that I should catch cold, but I took it to my bosom with gratitude as I reflected how it was drumming on the roof of the 'bus and blurring the windows.

  13. It was this way through many shifts of the tired brain, those curious phantoms of the spirit slipping in, blurring strange scenes, one with the other.

  14. We want internationalism, but the internationalism we mean is an understanding and a good will between distinct nations, not an internationalism which is the loss of a rich variety, and the blurring of distinctions.

  15. Warning calls, and little furtive hiders in the leaves, and a landscape of tapestried blurring carpeted with Botticelli flower-strewn sward.

  16. He could focus directly upon no outlines anywhere, for the tapestried blurring of the place.

  17. He was beginning to see more clearly in the odd, blurring twilight that ran the outlines of things together in that queer, tapestried manner.

  18. Before the first tender blurring of the leaf-buds we knew our trees, and loved them for their almost human qualities.

  19. The thick veil of wet descended straight from sky to earth, blurring distant outlines, spreading a vast sheen of grey over all the landscape.

  20. Close overhead whirled the chariots of the fog, galloping landward, smothering lights, blurring outlines.

  21. His legs were leaden, his lungs burned and sweat filled his eyes, stinging and blurring his vision.

  22. Blood was forced into his head, blurring his vision.

  23. And, blurring minor facial characteristics, there were the scars of the kifirgh on my mouth, cheeks, and shoulders.

  24. I grinned sourly, seeing my image dissolve in blurring shadows, and feeling the long-healed scar on my mouth draw up to make the grin hideous.

  25. As soon as we grow responsible, or become conscious of responsibility, something or other comes between us and the clear object of our curiosity, blurring its outline and confusing its colours.

  26. It swept aside all blurring and confusing mental litter, and left the lamentable stage of the great dilemma free for the fatal duel.

  27. He understood that in her brain had formed a vision of his fight with Devine and Ed True, and that, blurring that image, she was still seeing the picture of the dark forms rushing down into the gulch.

  28. A faint, dying breeze just barely stirred the drooping branches of the willow; in one place the graceful pendant leaves merged with their own reflections below, faintly blurring them with the slightest of ripples.

  29. The night was a vapourish, miserable one, blurring his figure into indistinctness, and when he spoke his voice was hoarse, as though the damp tendrils of the mist had penetrated to his throat.

  30. A blurring red was tinting the black clouds in the east as they crept along the path, when they heard a sharp challenge.

  31. It is possible, with the classicists, to condemn outright this blurring of values.

  32. But we are all agreed that typographical appeals to the eye are infinitely deceptive in blurring the distinction between verse and prose, and that the trained ear must be the only arbiter as to poetical and pseudo-poetical effects.

  33. Mortification and wretchedness were blurring the focus of her vision, and this suggestion that after all she was exaggerating her importance in Boone Wellver's life seemed the dictum she could not allow to pass unchallenged.

  34. Below there was only the confused blurring of words such as may come from a locked jury room, until over it sounded the deep basso that she had heard first that evening.

  35. The fog which had come crawling in from the lake had filled the lower streets and was feeling its way steadily through the sleeping city, blurring the street lights.

  36. His hand was on the latch before he realized that the library windows were blurring through the fog with light.

  37. I now began to feel anxious about finding a way in the blurring storm.

  38. Somewhere back of his eyes a strange blurring mist would seem to rise; he would find it impossible to keep his mind fixed upon any subject; the words of a printed page would little by little lose their meaning.

  39. A fine vapour as of the visible exhalation of many breaths pervaded the house, blurring the lowered lights and dimming the splendour of the great glass chandelier.


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