Example sentences for: blink

How can you use “blink” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Maybe New Year's Eve 2000 is one such blink of the eye, an opening in time which forces us to grapple with time--and death.

  • Among the many clues offered in Assassination Science , a 1998 anthology that devotes 200 pages to proof that the film is a fraud: People make supposedly implausible moves between frames, the "blink" pattern on the presidential limo's front lights is said to be uneven, the awful results of the head shot can't possibly have lasted only one frame (the horrible Frame 313).

  • They called it a kairos --an auspicious moment, le moment juste . The existential philosopher Martin Heidegger translated the concept into the German word Augenblick , an instant that occurs in the blink of an eye.

  • They moved from an Apple to Windows audience in their early days without a blink; they moved from a gated service to one where the Web was nearly co-opted into AOL; they went from hourly to unlimited without a look back--this is a company that is not tethered to anything except that which works.

  • But one blink of a starving boy's hollow eyes, captured on videotape and broadcast to North America and Western Europe, can galvanize the emotions, finances, and armies of the greatest nations on earth.


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