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Example sentences for: blinked

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He drifted away from his guests to the television, where Close found him channel surfing, staring at the procession of silent images as they blinked past, his once-legendary attention span splintered into nothingness.
After several harrowing days, Khrushchev blinked and agreed to remove the missiles in return for an American pledge not to invade Cuba and a secret pact to remove the Turkish missiles.
Yes, yes, we said we were going to do this a year ago and blinked, but this time we really do mean it.
If you blinked, you missed the whole thing.
asked Bill Kristol on ABC's This Week . "It was a chance finally to take decisive action, and the president blinked."