Example Sentences

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The three of them enter a rowboat and Malorie, also blindfolded, sightlessly guides the boat downriver.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2019

His face was blank, his eyes staring sightlessly.

From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2018

You don't want to get too attached to anyone, because you know by the third plot twist, they'll probably be staring sightlessly at the sky, and in the next scene, a phone will be ringing.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011

Now the scene is quiet; the bronze generals stare sightlessly at each other in the forest of statues; the cannons are now cannons in a park.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mammachi looked sightlessly out into the shining afternoon.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy