unseeing
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Daniel, with his unseeing yet piercing gaze, turns out to be the conscience of this story, which doesn’t mean that he, his memories or his eventual testimony can be entirely trusted.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023
It poised, tensed, on the landscape of shelterless rocks, While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.
From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022
In other words, spiders toss, turn, and avert their unseeing gaze, much as humans do during their dreams.
From Washington Times • Aug. 9, 2022
Sea horses gazed at me from dried, unseeing eye sockets, their snoutlike mouths frozen in a macabre O! of surprise.
From Slate • Nov. 9, 2018
As I went down the stairs he was standing by the windowsill on the landing, looking out, blind and unseeing.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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