Example Sentences

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If you look at the dots long enough, though, unfocusing your eyes and relaxing your brain, a scene emerges in the chaos.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2013

In this, as in Rosalyn Drexler's earlier novels, there is a joyful unfocusing of gender and role as defined by the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

He saw their yellow eyes waxing and waning in the light, focusing and unfocusing.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Every time Art scribbled a tip into his comm and squirted it back at the PoS, he considered this little puzzle, eyes unfocusing for a moment while his vision turned inwards.

From Eastern Standard Tribe by Doctorow, Cory