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How to use the word Blinking in a Sentence?

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As you can see, this eye is not blinking. I ca n’t smile on this side of my face. This nostril will not move.

Justin Bieber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We noticed a little erratic behavior like these blinking lights that are on a sensor. When my family or any other family leaves or returns to their homes, they all start to blink, when the sensors are activated, loud music begins to play. He switches the music based on the family that is activating the music.

Jannique Martinez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The threats, I would say, were everywhere, the Norfolk Field FBI office notified The Norfolk Field FBI office. The Washington Post and other newspapers were writing about The Washington Post. The Washington Post was on radio, The Washington Post was on television, The Washington Post was on other social media streams. The system was blinking red.

Carolyn Maloney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

First there were real high winds and then a loud boom, and next thing you know the lights started blinking. We heard the transformer blow, then another transformer blow, and then it just went black.

Resident Carla Jackson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I'm here to say, the warning lights are blinking red again, dHS does not have evidence of the fact that anywhere near what happened in 2016.

The President

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The warning signs are there, the system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point.

Dan Coats

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The warning signs are there. The system is blinking, it is why I believe we are at a critical point.

Dan Coats

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The warning signs are there, the system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point. Today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack.

Dan Coats

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The warning signs are there. The system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point, today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack.

Dan Coats

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is by no means a panic or trend-inducing kind of caution, but there is some uncertainty about whether the yuan devaluation is part of a controlled stimulus plan or a sign that Beijing is blinking in the face of greater weakness to come, and uncertainty always warrants caution.

Stephen Worrell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But there is some uncertainty about whether the yuan devaluation is part of a controlled stimulus plan or a sign that Beijing is blinking in the face of greater weakness to come, and uncertainty always warrants caution.

Stephen Worrell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We couldn't understand if he was alive or dead. He had his eyes wide open looking at us. He was not blinking, not moving or talking. We only realized he was alive when he grabbed us suddenly.

Giuseppe Pomilla

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Without anyone blinking an eye ... it became a state rite.

John Breen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

George Eliot

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

Dick Gregory

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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