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Sentence Examples He was not one of those people one should take lightly, for he could become terribly serious in the blink of an eye. He regularly humiliates dinner-party guests and makes out that his cellphone is on the blink to end dull conversations. Sure, sometimes the days crawl by, but before you know it, two months will have breezed past in the blink of an eye. Poor old Rod's telly was on the blink, and he understandably felt there was nothing for it but to scamper up for a fiddle around with the aerial. I voiced my opinion after an hour of internal deliberation, but it was shot down and ignored faster than I could blink. Its full frontal nudity is unlikely to cause the blink of a Gallic eyelid when the French see it this Christmas. She shot an ice-charged projectile down at the scimitars, but the whirling cutters diced it to ribbons in the blink of an eye. Readers will be intrigued by the idea that in the blink of an eye one can make a valid and justifiable decision. Either mechanical tapping or electrical stimulation of the supraorbital regions may evoke the blink reflex. When she appeared the first time I said good afternoon to her and then in the blink of an eye she was gone. In the blink of an eye, her fingernails and toenails were painted a shade of blue to match her dress. And the use of the infinitive for coming events is so common we hardly blink. Until a week ago, he was demented, rigid, incontinent, unable to talk, swallow or blink his eyes. Following the western cultural practice of ladies first, the entire session of formal introductions was completed in a blink of the eye. Her eyes opened slowly and she had to blink a few times to adjust her eyes to the lights that were still on around her in the room. In a blink of an eye, the point of her blade was protruding from the back of his armor. Unfortunately, she was gone in a blink of an eye and the opportunity to speak was lost. Voters are seen as a strange and volatile lot, who could turn bad at the blink of an eye. The role is uncredited, and, like the rest of the film, blink and you may miss it. It is a strange feeling to work on this project for a whole year, only for it to be over and done with in what feels like the blink of an eye. Show More Sentences A frown appeared on his face, as he desperately tried to blink his tears back. At night all the lights blink and flash, and you can hear waves of screams from the rides. With most cameras the correct-focus indicator light will blink rapidly and the shutter release won't fire. But she watched her mother blink in surprise and take an involuntary step back away from her. Rachel and Annette both halted and turned, Rachel giving a blink of surprise at the tall and handsome man approaching. Michael brushed his hand across his sleepy eyes and gave a heavy blink and then looked again. Vicki caught his blink of shock and silently began to pray that he could help them. The blue eyes closed, staying shut longer and tighter than a blink would require. It is now well-known that in order to observe a blink, the first target must be masked. With a startled blink, Ana looked behind her to find none other then the orange pig-tailed little girl. So far as the vehicles go, colors can be changed in what amounts to a physical blink of an eye. The maids were well paid, well fed, well rested, well clothed and if some emergency cropped up they were given leave without the blink of an eye. Without a blink she marched to the trapdoor and began the descent, doing her best not to look Jorte in the eyes. If I would get the chance I would fight them tomorrow without a blink of my eye. It was of similar shape as a fighter and had a flashing red light similar to passenger jet's blink. It should come as no surprise that, when the slightest blink of yellow light came into view, I recklessly sped towards it. Yesterday we had rain, rain and more rain, a little blink of sunshine and then thick mist! Then there it was again, a blink of light in the grass about three yards away. But a blink of sunlight was a harbinger of hope for the Edinburgh team as they gradually but determinedly fought their way back into this game. Through the veil she saw the blink of gold, the flash of a silver ring on a pale wraith's finger. Show More Sentences Richard was a little shocked to see her go from shy and demure to forthright and direct in the blink of an eye. Dinner went by reasonably quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they were fast asleep, except for one. The ball began to grow and then, suddenly, in the blink of an eye, it disappeared. Without a care in the world, he has negotiated hairpin bends at gravity-defying angles and roared past rivals in the blink of an eye. He had come this close to death in the blink of an eye, and just as quickly it was taken away. At only 55 minutes, the album's twelve tracks go by in the blink of an eye. The point is that the character's gay but the audience doesn't blink an eye. The man didn't blink an eye at her faux pas, however, and merely got into the car after being handed the keys and drove away. We don't blink an eye today when we see women doing what would once be considered jobs for the boys. Emma, Jeff, Tina and Darcy don't blink an eye and raise their glasses along with me. When his boss brought him the new assignment last fall, he didn't blink an eye. He didn't blink an eye when purchasing a pair of Italian loafers for more than a thousand US dollars. If the washing machine goes on the blink it has to be winched on to the ferry and it's gone for a fortnight. The chip fat filtering machine went on the blink and a manager decided to cut corners. Nowadays when your solid-state, instant-on color TV goes on the blink, you phone the TV repairman for an appointment. It also had the effect of making visitors think their monitor was on the blink. Turn them on, and they blink, flicker, strobe, hum, plink, buzz, and occasionally go bang. In the blink of an eye, he leaped towards the table and heaved the sword in a mighty slash that cut the vase in two halves. It doesn't hurt that he gets plenty of face time on the highlights with home runs that exit ballparks in the blink of an eye. Only when it started slopping into the overflow did I blink back to awareness and shut it off. Show More Sentences Even if he is used sparingly as a substitute, such a player can always unlock doors and turn tides in the blink of an eye. Give him a six row figure containing both additions and subtractions and he will come up with the answer within the blink of an eye. The blink reflex was characterized by an initial triphasic wave on the ipsilateral stimulus side, followed by a polyphasic wave on both sides. Few people blink these days when some Chicken Little somewhere announces that the virtual sky is falling. Electrical stimulation of the supraorbital nerve in the supraorbital foramen was used to evoke the blink reflex. The PC was fast, programs loaded in the blink of an eye, and Internet surfing was a breeze. Well, Katherine Graham didn't blink, and the rest, as they say, is history. The ancient British art of industrial brinkmanship is risky for managements and unions that try to force each other to blink first. He looks like a picture, frozen in time, one instant that happened in the blink of an eye, unnoticed and uncared for by the rest of the universe. She had to blink to readapt to the natural light when the track came into view. He lifted his sword and to his dismay, his sword had disappeared from his hand at the blink of an eye. My night vision is very good and getting better as I blink the film from my eyes. A blue mist swept through the room, but in the blink of an eye, it was gone, leaving nothing in its wake but a feeling of divineness. My mind has a vivid picture of it. do, since it happens in the blink of an eye. It made my entire desktop blink on each ring, with a centered popup showing who was calling and what number they were using. The drops are instilled to locally anesthetize the surgical eye and reduce the blink reflex in both eyes. Will you blink an eye for them if the banderlats tear them to pieces or will you drown your guilt in petty self righteous doubletalk? Using state-of-the-art technology in animatronics and engineering, these life-size dinosaurs are able to move, roar and blink their eyes. Suddenly, unwanted mental images assailed her, forcing her to swallow hard and blink to keep from reacting. Shifting from gritty and fervid to soft and wet in the blink of an eye, she flicks away all competitors with effortless facility. Show More Sentences By means of this algebraic method of thinking, objects are grasped spatially, in the blink of an eye. When I did no more than dumbly blink back he straightened and gave me a rather speculative look before finally breaking into a slow smirk. Although her brain was intact, she could just about blink and could barely speak. As spittle from her mouth hit his face, his reflexes made him blink at the sudden feelings of the droplets falling onto his skin. The canoe slides into the water in the blink of an eye and before you can say Jack Robinson it's twenty yards off shore. And then you surface with a splosh and for a few brief seconds, everything's still blurry as you blink the water from your eyes. The light inside the building blasted into her eyes, making her have to blink many times to get used to it. In today's high-speed networked computing environment, both inadvertent damage and malicious attacks can cripple a system in the blink of an eye. Computers generate heat, dehumidifying the air, and you blink less when you concentrate on work. With a blink, his eyes adjusted and decided it was either a wild dog or a wolf or a coyote. It gives me a pointed blink then bends its long, slender neck down and laps up some water with a snaking, scarlet tongue, making delicate ripples in the glassy water. I blink in surprise and Sam and Ben burst into gales of laughter. Remember, women's fashion trends come and go in the blink of an eye. The car responds with a blink of its lights and a short shriek. He was unable to speak, and the woman asked him to blink once for yes, twice for no in reply to some questions. The activity LED will blink twice which indicates Speed Boost is enabled. In the blink of an eye, her ring collections jetted from the showrooms into the gleaming display cases of the world class retail merchants like Bloomingdales. A demonstration of vulnerability can become, in the blink of an eye, an indulgence or exercise in self-regard and, soon after that, an entrapment in fraudulence. Tying a balloon at the gate to the zoo, he catches the blink of a cashier before she rings up another fee, hungers for the moment a turtle slips into water. His watery eyes blink at me and his mouth works without speech. Show More Sentences The child smirked, morphing in a blink to a tall dark-haired man. For most of the morning the air conditioner was on the blink. I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can't blink. Human freedom has already vanished from his world, in the blink of an eye. But Hansen got back onto his feet in the blink of an eye, somehow got downfield, and dove to make a game-saving, shoestring tackle at the seven-yard line. Believe what your post-hard-work-day brain will allow, but the enmity went from entrenched to fleeting in a blink of an eye. Also, blink and you'll miss Michael Caine in an uncredited bit part. On the next pitch, he slammed a screaming line drive right at and caught by second baseman Bobby Richardson, and in the blink of an eye, the World Series was over. Within the blink of an eye, the sword hilt had been lowered upon the back of her head, and she crumpled neatly into a pile unconscious without so much as a snivel. The film leaps from cityscapes to stages and back without a blink. Robinson picked up the ball almost from a standing start and in the blink of an eye, he rounded six players before scoring between the posts without anyone touching him. I could blink and move my head, but everything else was uncontrollable. My eyes began flooding with tears, but I tried to blink them back. Neither of them would blink an eye at my check stubs or grocery lists. It was all in the eyes, unmoving, not even a single blink, aimed at a faraway distance only he could see. She nearly screamed, causing him to set the stick aside and blink at her, a confused expression crossing his face, giving him a boyish appearance. We don't even blink at these expressions of violence any more. One survivor said the building came down in the blink of an eye. She'll start acting coy, and then suddenly blink, stammer, turn red, and hurry off quickly or, if we're in our room, she buries her nose in a book. She gave Sasha a short blink from her light and heard the car motor start. Show More Sentences The traffic lights operated correctly last week but come Sunday morning they were dangerously on the blink again, changing colour with bewildering rapidity. They're looking for the indicator light to blink on, then off. It looks like they're playing chicken to see who's going to blink first. In a single blink, Justine had analyzed him and the situation she was in. In the blink of an eye, the hipster has turned into a catch-all scapegoat, guilty for everything from expensive beer to bad music. She is almost always overdressed, and in ways that make people blink. They are writing complex computer codes that can dig down into the so-called Deep Web and scour the most obscure corners of the internet in the blink of an electronic eye. Another area where enterprise customers blink is multiple sources. He was a quick-change artist who could, in the blink of an eye, switch between abandoning himself to a fantasy and sending up his own abandon. A satire on greed caused by Eire's economic boom, the film swerves recklessly from comedy to tragedy in the blink of an eye. We never know what the future can hold for us as our life can change at any age in the blink of an eye. This whole process happens as fast as the blink of an eye and is transparent to the customer. We search for God and feel Him near at hand, only then to blink and find Him gone. The superprogrammer of the 1960s was that person who could make the lights blink fastest on the system console. So when ours went on the blink last week I set out to find some budget washing-up liquid. Most television sets are built to last about eight years, so if yours is on the blink you should seriously think about widescreen. In the blink of an eye a neologism was formed, half Turkish, half English. They could wave a rainbow flag in a pride march and nobody would blink. Picking the ball up in his own half, Januzaj threaded a 40-yard pass into the path of Rooney to slice Southampton open in the blink of an eye. It can include micrographia, hypomimia, hypophonia as well as decreased blink rate. Show More Sentences The most important one is that they have small eyes with eyelids that, like other lizards, blink. With a brain the size of a salt grain, a fruit fly can do Top Gun maneuvers in about one-fiftieth of the time it takes to blink a human eye. The human eye takes about 50 milliseconds to blink, but it takes the brain around 100 milliseconds longer to process what can be seen. Efron, in a blink, went from shy concealment to peacock-ish display. Look quickly, though, because if you blink you'll miss the single cave painting slide and, along with it, the next 10 millennia of human culture. It began unremarkably but in the blink of an eye, the courtroom had witnessed the deaths of six people. My toaster is on the blink, making either charcoal or cold bread. I can think of no good reason to use blink because blinking text and images are annoying, they mark the creator as an amateur, and they have poor browser support. One stepover turned into six, Middlesbrough's defence was bamboozled and, in the blink of an eye, Everton had effectively reached the Capital One Cup semi-finals. From time to time we have suggested that short term traders might want to take a breather from this market but long term investors shouldn't even blink an eye. A November hunting trip in the extreme North turned into a lifesaving opportunity in the blink of an eye for two master sergeants from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. But when hit with a flash of bluish light like that produced by headlight fish, they turn on skin pigments, called chromatophores, to become red in the blink of an eye. They do nottend not to blink if they receive a sore one in the fizzog. Then, after a smoky-burnout to warm up the tires, you're lined up next to another competitor and the Christmas tree lights blink down... yellow, yellow, yellow, green! Don't animate your visuals to blink ad infinitum. Set a small-file blinkie to turn off after no more than three passes at whatever it is your blinkie does. Meanwhile, Garner vamps it up as the ambitious social climber whose bullying father doesn''t blink twice when Arthur accidentally shoots him with a nail gun. We'd barely unpacked the tree when a call came through and before I could blink, they were all armouring themselves up and heading out the door. Before she could blink, she was sprawled a few feet back, her ears still ringing from the force of the blow. Examples from Classical Literature It had lain so long in some darkened cellar that it seemed to blink in the candlelight. Then with a quick, shuddery blink her eyes came flashing back wetly and wistfully to the unsolved, inscrutable face before her. Then he pushed the gas-bracket so that the light came through the large crystal sphere, and made the mayoress blink. A piece of my nametag, now shrapnel, strikes Dan in the forehead, causing him to blink. Strike a daisy, but if you're not off like a blink o' lightnin', you Shanna go, you s'll sleep separate. It was a hesitating face, which seemed to blink doubtfully in the daylight. She used those very words, without a blink, and Pignaver swallowed the flattery as a dog bolts a gobbet of meat. On top of each listening post will be a red light which will blink like a beacon at night. The city could have erected an 800-space parking lot on Oread Street with a drive-thru meth lab and no one would blink. I never seen people look so helpless and tangled up, and I hain't ever seen eyes bug out and gaze without a blink the way theirn did. A shooting-star to northward filled the sky with the green blink of a meteorite dissipating itself in our atmosphere. I spoke looking her straight in the face and I made that exquisite, aristocratic old woman positively blink by my directness. But the survivor could not forget that his name was still in the newspapers, nor blink the fact that he was an unworthy hero of the passing hour. Already a mood of much daylight was making him blink and shrink. No sunlight ever made her blink, or screw her face into wrinkles. That tint is what we call the blink of open water, said Johnson. So the port lost dozens of boats after its ice machine went on the blink in 2004, and with them, a piece of Florence's identity. And the splitten fry are salted dry by the blink of the morning star. Grose's dazed blink across to where I pointed struck me as a sovereign sign that she too at last saw, just as it carried my own eyes precipitately to the child. She was so confounded that she could do nothing but blink for a long time. Show More Sentences From tiers of staircase windows clogged lamps like the eyes of Equity, bleared Argus with a fathomless pocket for every eye and an eye upon it, dimly blink at the stars. When he ventured to blink hastily, he derived some moral support from the green gleam of the starboard light shining feebly upon the flight of rain and sprays. There was more than sunlight to make the Breton pirate blink. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of blink? Words that rhyme with blink What is the past tense of blink? What is the plural of blink? What is the adverb for blink? What is the adjective for blink? What is the noun for blink? Translations for blink Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words blini bling-bling bling blindworm blind-spot blind spot Blink blinked blinker blinkered blinkers blinking 5-letter Words Starting With b bl bli blin