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Example sentences from the Web for blinksNew York blinks in the face of uncertainty and bans hydraulic fracturing. New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST CLAIRE: (blinks rapidly) But Francis, we have the Paws and Purrsonality pancake breakfast next week. Frank Underwood Will Not Tolerate Insubordination in This Olive Garden|Kelly Williams Brown|February 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST And it may be who blinks rather than who shuts the government down that matters most. Why Democrats Should Fear a Government Shutdown|David A. Graham|February 28, 2011|DAILY BEAST Ferdie blinks a couple of times as the picture forms on the screen. Torchy, Private Sec.|Sewell Ford
The blinks faded as we got there and Sid told us not to move because we were making shadows. The Big Time|Fritz Reuter Leiber He blinks at the author through his scientific spectacles and asks again: "Which Ajatasatru?" Stories from Tagore|Rabindranath Tagore The next night the charade was ass-ass-in, and Blinks went on for the first two syllables. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales|Francis A. Durivage He was not of an imaginative or philosophic turn, like Mr. Blinks. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851|Various
noun(functioning as singular) a small temperate portulacaceous plant, Montia fontana with small white flowers Word Origin for blinksC19: from blink, because the flowers do not fully open and thus seem to blink at the light Words nearby blinksblink comparator, blinker, blinkered, blinkers, blinking, blinks, blinky, blintz, blintze, bliny, blip Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to blinksflicker, sparkle, flash, flutter, squint, forget, bat, nictitate, shimmer, glimmer, scintillate, glitter, overpass, connive, bypass, discount, omit, slight, fail, cushion |