blinking
adjective
(used as an intensifier).
blinkingly
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a word derived from
blinking.
Example Sentences
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Then came an eerie silence, pierced by the crowing of roosters, as people blinkingly stepped out of their homes into the morning light.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
He was a very light porter indeed; as light as in the days when he blinkingly defined a horse, for girl number twenty.
From Hard Times by Charles Dickens
"Have we seen it all?" sighed Marguerite, as she removed her veil and glasses and gazed back blinkingly into the last light of day.
From City of Endless Night by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
Vaguely surprised, yet too stupefied to realise that his rambling words might have worked serious mischief, Zouche gazed blinkingly on his retreating figure.
From Temporal Power by Marie Corelli
Sure, in a previous life, he must have been a comely ox, fond of swishing its tail in the sunshine and blinkingly chewing the cud, with its legs to the knees in a puddle.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
