How to Use unblinking in a Sentence

unblinking

adjective
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  • The book provides an unblinking view of the causes of the war.
  • Through her swim mask, her eyes are wide and unblinking, staring at the sun.
    — James Nestor, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2012
  • But don’t let that — or the movie’s many unblinking, up-close scenes of human surgery — scare you off.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • Brent lay on his back, his unblinking eyes staring at the cliffs above.
    — Alden Woods, azcentral, 18 Apr. 2018
  • So potent that the stone stands in for the evil eye, warding off jealousy, a blank blue eye open and unblinking.
    — Mariam Rahmani, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The meaning of the image is ambiguous, but one’s mind travels to the question of who is looking down at the subject in this unblinking way.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The film gives an unblinking look at the flaws in an American justice system that let tens of thousands or more rape kits go untested for years.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Feinstein stared straight ahead, unblinking, for nearly 30 seconds as the fury washed over her.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Author Bruce Boston writes with the voice of a poet, the heart of a bodhisattva, and the unblinking eye of an investigative reporter.
    — Daniel Marcus, WIRED, 1 Mar. 1995
  • The royal wedding is scheduled for Saturday, and Meghan has been trying out some of the duties royal life will bring her – all under the unblinking eye of the media.
    — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
  • Through an unblinking black eyeball, a 20-foot-high scarlet octopus ogles my lunch.
    — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
  • Ferrell’s Steyer gives a short speech while approaching the camera, his unblinking face soon filling the entire frame.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Electronics evolve, with ever cheaper cameras and radar turning unblinking eyes to the road ahead (and behind).
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The truth is that kids who are considered unblinking and uncool academic strivers are teased by everyone.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
  • From the air, the new garden in the town of Boki Diawe, in northeast Senegal, looks like an eye: wide open, unblinking, and flanked by a smattering of divots dug in the surrounding soil, dark like freckles across a nose.
    — Jessica Leigh Hester, Wired, 21 Aug. 2021
  • But the most absorbing pieces are those in which Gurba turns her unblinking gaze to life’s cruelties, weaving together disparate threads that somehow hold in the end.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • A certain unblinking doggedness is one of the traits the Gelbs share with their subject, the leading American practitioner of the jumbo-length dramatic event.
    — Jeremy McCarter, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
  • As each passage is being read, it’s accompanied by an unblinking shot of the same address in Amsterdam, filmed during the present day.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • Other photographers were focusing on the optimism and prosperity of the 1950s, but Mr. Frank gazed through the unblinking eye of his Leica and saw a much bleaker prospect.
    — Andrew Marton, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • A woman’s unblinking eyes register the flickering of lights.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2017
  • In the three years since the start of the Iran nuclear agreement, a cluster of buildings near the Austrian capital has served as an unblinking eye over Tehran’s most sensitive factories and research labs.
    — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
  • In the three years since the start of the Iran nuclear agreement, a cluster of buildings near the Austrian capital has served as an unblinking eye over Tehran's most sensitive factories and research labs.
    — Author: Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2018
  • With WAMI, a drone can point its unblinking eye at the ground below, capturing a medium definition image twice a second.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2017
  • At one crucial point, Camille raises her eyes at Clarkson’s Adora with a look of unblinking defiance that says her mother’s mistreatment will no longer be ignored.
    — Matthew Eng, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Tall and lanky, Crombie’s character had a flat, borderline menacing affect and an unblinking 1,000-yard stare.
    — Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
  • While Owens’ subject matter is a far cry from the gritty freneticism depicted by Davidson and Lyon, his images are biting and unblinking.
    — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Make unblinking eye contact and launch into a lengthy monologue about how Sacred Geometry proves God is a triangle.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 31 July 2023
  • There is no malice in any of this, just a simple, unblinking desperation to be viewed as the popular pensive gentleman Jordan sees himself as.
    — refinery29.com, 26 June 2018
  • The second video is the background, a canvas of unblinking devastation: burning cars, falling bodies, raging crowds.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 9 May 2018
  • Days of Wine and Roses is an affecting, unblinking portrayal of the reality of dealing with addiction that’s seldom seen on Broadway.
    — EW.com, 29 Jan. 2024

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