Example Sentences

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Pep Guardiola's Manchester City have blinked first in the Premier League title run-in as they stumbled to a draw against Nottingham Forest.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

If there was any better narrative than the fact that she was “brave” I may have blinked and missed it.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2022

Few would have blinked had Andonovski started any of his second-half substitutes: Press, Lynn Williams and Lindsey Horan.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2020

The remarkable thing is how little audiences have blinked as the Disney-owned studio has introduced Norse gods, patriotic super-soldiers, multi-coloured extraterrestrials and even insect-sized crime fighters to the mix.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2016

And he even had a sort of preppie, arrogant air about him: If I’d run into him wearing tasseled loafers in some uptown real estate developer’s office, I wouldn’t have blinked an eye.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover