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
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
She held her breath in the darkness, and the party passed unseeing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2017
He lay as though asleep, his eyes veiled and unseeing, his lip still curled in a snarl.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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