Example sentences for: blinked

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

  • "Which one blinked?"

  • Without giving up demands for self-determination, India fought at Britain’s side in World War I, and more than one Prussian general blinked at Rajput and Sikh princes leading an Indian infantry through the trenches of France.

  • If credibility were such a fragile commodity, we wouldn't have needed the Reagan buildup after the Russians blinked during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or in 1973 when they made noises about helping the Arabs in the Yom Kippur war and then backed down.

  • But at least when it came to the powerhouses of this stock market, the big-cap tech names, no one even blinked.

  • On CNN's Late Edition , Susan Page said Clinton was having trouble explaining "why it isn't the United States who blinked."


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