Example sentences for: blinkered

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

  • The leather eye-patches sewn to the sides of the halter ( blinders in America and blinkers in England) keep a horse from shying by narrowing vision to the road directly ahead, the sense implied when we say that someone does something with blinders on or has a blinkered viewpoint.

  • Movies that revolve around moral choices often have an aura of sanctimoniousness built into them: The audience is presented with the issue in the starkest blacks and whites and waits for the blinkered protagonist to "do the right thing."

  • "In this important volume Finkelstein and Birn demonstrate that Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Judeocide is monocausal, teleological, and severely blinkered.

  • We suspect that the intensely professionally centered enculturation most physicians receive in their training and practice environments may render them, in the words of John Seely Brown and Paul Draguld, “blinkered if not blind” to the emergence of many promising new technocultural changes, which currently present new opportunities for health-care innovation [10].

  • The film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, would be worth seeing just for Stamp's performance, at once rock-hard and goofily blinkered, and for Peter Fonda's wittily self-parodic turn as the suspected killer, a music producer who coasts on '60s counterculture easiness while his lackeys do the dirty work.


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