How to Use blink in a Sentence
- She blinked when the light flashed.
- Her eyes blinked when the light flashed.
- She blinked her eyes when the light flashed.
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The Wolves didn’t blink, not at any point.
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Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
26 Mar. 2026
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Her eyes blink and react to light.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
21 Mar. 2026
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Look her in the eye and blink slowly.
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Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
1 Dec. 2025
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The question is who blinks first.
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William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The doe’s eyes blinked on either side of a spindly trunk.
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Devon O’Neil,
Outside,
15 Oct. 2025
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Eddie came in there, new to this team and didn’t blink.
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Michael Nowels,
Mercury News,
22 Sep. 2025
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Some were clad in neon string lights that blinked to an unknown beat.
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Charlotte Observer,
24 Nov. 2025
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Then, before there was a chance to blink, things changed yet again.
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Ashley Stahl,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2023
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Venezuela, though, never blinked.
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Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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And his teammates didn’t blink when asked to play in front of him.
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Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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By 2025, those places blinked out like starlight.
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Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Davis's dress featured a blink-and-you-miss-it side cutout.
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Chanel Vargas,
InStyle,
24 May 2026
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And then Willis pursed her lips, blinked a few times and that was that.
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Robin Givhan,
Washington Post,
16 Feb. 2024
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The Horns blinked for four minutes.
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Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Jan. 2026
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By then, the blink-and-you-miss-it robbery was all but over.
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Tom Soufi Burridge,
ABC News,
10 Dec. 2025
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Why face the blank page and the blinking cursor?
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Charles Yu,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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After dinner, the lights dimmed and a screen blinked on.
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Nick Stern,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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Neither side is going to blink.
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ABC News,
16 June 2026
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Neither side is going to blink.
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CBS News,
17 June 2026
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If there was any talk of a pay-cut, though, Powers didn’t blink.
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Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
20 May 2026
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Those who want to be able to blink and open their eyes should look for one with contoured eye cups.
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Theresa Holland,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Feb. 2024
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The other is that China blinks and gives in.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
12 Oct. 2025
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The Golden Knights didn’t blink.
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Jesse Granger,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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But my main direction is don’t blink, don’t move your face, and say your lines.
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Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Apr. 2022
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But Jacobs and his teammates did not blink.
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Matt Slater,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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But once the camera blinked on, Perry’s face lit up.
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Mckay Coppins,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
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One side of his face appeared frozen and only one eye was blinking.
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CBS News,
1 Mar. 2023
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To us, that’s a blink of an eye.
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Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
12 Aug. 2025
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And that could change in the blink of an eye.
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Blair R. Fischer,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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And yet, it’s gone by in the blink of an eye.
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Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
29 Nov. 2025
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The sense is this could be over in the blink of an eye.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2025
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Six weeks, six months, two years pass in the blink of an eye.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
3 Dec. 2025
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Then a 70 mph pitch whizzed by her in a blink.
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Lindsay Schnell,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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In cosmic terms, that's a blink of an eye.
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Brandon Specktor,
Space.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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Boys go from babies to boys in the blink of an eye.
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Bonnie Gibbs Vengrow,
Parents,
3 June 2026
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But in the blink of an eye, White’s luck turned around.
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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People die, and see their life in a blink of an eye.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2025
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Then my world flipped upside down in the blink of an eye.
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MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Nov. 2025
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In the blink of an eye, her whole world was turned upside down.
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Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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Not small enough to be a blip on the map, a blink-and-you-miss-it town.
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Ryan Black,
The Courier-Journal,
23 Oct. 2022
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Then 300 feet of rock rush past in a blink of an eye.
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Bailey Richards,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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The tie game vanished in the blink of an eye in the top of the eighth.
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Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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In the grand scheme of things, that is the blink of a marmoset’s eye.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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In the blink of an eye, a 24-win season was over.
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Tarek Fattal,
Daily News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Imagine having a full phone charge in the blink of an eye.
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New Atlas,
4 Apr. 2026
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On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again.
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Marcia Dunn,
Fortune,
5 Apr. 2026
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In the blink of an eye, leaves will hit the ground and candy toothaches will come around.
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Chelsea Avila,
Allure,
22 July 2022
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In other ways, the past 50 years feels like a blink of an eye.
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Brad Schmitt,
Nashville Tennessean,
23 Oct. 2025
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One blink, and it was gone again, just another fleck in the mulch.
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Chris Schalkx,
Vogue,
30 Sep. 2025
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Then, in a blink, the shilling became inescapable.
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Danny Funt,
New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2025
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The awareness of movement in space with your body, even the blink of an eye.
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Liza Foreman,
Variety,
30 Jan. 2023
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The game of baseball was so fast, and things happen to you in a blink of an eye.
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Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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In the blink of an eye, the Thunder were in control.
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Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
16 Mar. 2026
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Words and labels can turn to violence in the blink of an eye.
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Mark Eddington,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
28 Nov. 2022
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In the blink of an eye, the top bidder wins the auction and the ad loads on the page.
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Craig Silverman,
ProPublica,
29 Oct. 2022
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This leads to the mentality that news lasts a blink of an eye.
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Rica Cerbarano,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2023
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Changed my view of everything and myself in the blink of an eye.
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Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2023
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