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
This can be really useful for mitigating anxiety, as well as for unseeing what you once considered can’t-unseeable.
From Slate • Nov. 2, 2020
The boys followed me up to my room and watched me as I sat on the edge of my bed, staring unseeing at the far wall.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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