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Meaning blink meaning

What does blink mean?
Definitions in simple English

blink Verb

— If you blink, you close your eyes for a very short time. The sun shone in her eyes and she blinked a few times. She turned her back and blinked away her tears. — If something is blinking, it is turning on an off quickly. A light was blinking on his phone.

blink

— verb briefly shut the eyes The TV announcer never seems to blink — verb (= blink away) force to go away by blinking blink away tears — noun a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly — verb (= flash) gleam or glow intermittently The lights were flashing

Synonyms blink synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as blink?

blink English » English

wink twinkle flicker flash nictitate nictate eye blink blinking blink away winkle squint instant winking twinkling shimmer press together nictitation nictation moment flutter flap close one’s eyes close beat wrinkles wince unknow twitch tap sparkle shrinkage depression second scintillate reflex reflected light reflect peep palpebrate occult lighten ignore gutter glisten glint glimmer gleam flare dance connive condone

Topics blink topics

What do people use blink to talk about?
Person Body Head

Eye
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Facial expression
States Quality Light

Shine

  • What words refer to something shining brighter and dimmer again and again?
    flicker blink

Conjugation blink conjugation

How do you conjugate blink?

blink · verb

Examples blink examples

How do I use blink in a sentence?

Simple sentences

In the blink of an eye, the tennis-ball-sized dumpling had disappeared.
Remarkably it disappeared within the blink of an eye.
He left in the blink of an eye.
Newscasters blink a lot.
She makes excellent meals in the blink of an eye.
The police usually blink at cars parked here.
The firefighters put out the fire in the blink of an eye.
Newscasters blink once every second.
It happened in the blink of an eye.

Movie subtitles

Bum ticker, kidneys on the blink.
In the blink of an eye.
Not a tear, not even a blink of the eyes.
In the blink of an eye she gave up on all her true talents - the opera, fame.
One of us will come back tonight, blink the headlights.
And I became afraid because it has all passed in the blink of an eye.
Sir, the TD Y's on the blink again.
She didn't even blink.
Track this if I blink red.
I think my set's on the blink.
Dry, I tell you. Those people didn't have enough damp to blink their eye.
Blink and you just might miss it.
I hate the way you blink all the time.
Now, please, don't blink.
That thing's on the blink!
We did not even blink an eye.
At his age, darling, it was really more of a blink.
The lights are on the blink down here.
The spark plug is on the blink.
Don't you even blink.
Some of them would make Freud sit up and blink.
Full of wine and hatred, Justin assembled his forces in the blink of an eye.
I saw him blink when he took off his glasses.
Your Emir almost died, and you didn't even blink about it.
No nerves. Not a tear, not even a blink of the eyes.
Those people didn't have enough damp to blink their eye.
One blink and she's.
His phone's on the blink.
You do a double blink.
Oh, they're always on the blink.
He didn't blink once.
It's on the blink again.

News and current affairs

It is only a decade since trading speeds fell below one second; they are now as fast as the blink of an eye.
Israel's insistence in continuing its assassination policy led, predictably, to a violent reaction--a pattern of assassinations followed by revenge suicide bombings and then further assassinations, with neither side prepared to blink.
Ordinarily, you might expect House Republicans to blink at this stage of the negotiations, but there is a hardline minority that actually appears to think that defaulting on government debt would not be a bad thing.
It is always dangerous to give the impression of being the first to blink when facing authoritarian regimes.
In the ongoing showdown over currencies, who will blink first?

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