How to Use blur in a Sentence

blur

1 of 2 noun
  • The rest of the night was a blur of dessert and dancing.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The hours that followed the call were a teary blur, Mike said.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Kristi said the rest of the night was a bit of a blur, as the group had been drinking.
    Sarah Portney, NBC News, 31 May 2023
  • Much of what King said is now a blur to the 76-year-old LeVias.
    Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The threads of lace — red and white — in the foreground are painted in a blur.
    Nick Glass, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
  • This time, the rising sun lit up a pink blur on the white sand.
    Michael Adno, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • While the past year has been a blur and a balancing act for the group, the one ahead looks bright.
    Concetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The time in between losing our son and now is still a blur.
    Jessy Wilson, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Every parent knows that the past and the future are a blur.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Still, a few econoboxes manage to stand out from the blur.
    Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 1 June 2023
  • The next, Lamont Butler sliced through the lane for a blur of a layup.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Then up comes his racquet head from the middle of his back in a blur and . . .
    Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • A lot of what happened that day remains hazy, kind of a blur.
    Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The final seconds were a blur played against the sound of whistling that threatened to make ears bleed.
    Tariq Panja, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • That said, the guitarist is still making sense of it, since the recording process was a blur.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Lavrov was still stuck — and the months after his friends got out were a blur of misery.
    Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The city of Paris zips by in a blur, looking like a Monet painting.
    Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The rest of that day is a blur as my psyche was so traumatized.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The ceremony itself was kind of a blur, but in the best way.
    Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Our weekends were a nonstop blur of games and recitals.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Then, his days at the office pass by in a blur of meetings and fittings.
    Rory Satran, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Paper birch and jack pines pass in a blur, and light shimmers as the sun rises.
    Deborah Reid, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The next two years were a blur of suitcases, tryouts and new cities.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Sorry about the blur, those puppies don’t stay still long enough.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Riding up in the elevator, the blue lines rush by in a blur.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
  • When Marty gets inside and guns for 88 miles per hour, the screens around the stage blur behind him.
    Theater Review Aug. 3, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Walsh, 19, of Cambridge, New York, said what occurred next was a blur.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • My first day at Friends, in July 2000, was a nerve-racking blur.
    Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • For many, life is a blur of workdays, weekends and a whole lot of stress in between.
    Dr. Kimberly Jarvis, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The blur of things remains completely worth it, of course.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022
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blur

2 of 2 verb
  • The tears in my eyes blurred the words on the page.
  • The two events have blurred together in my mind.
  • His novel is based on historical occurrences but it blurs the line between fact and fiction.
  • The sharpness of pain fades, and faces in our mind blur, details are lost to time.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
  • But the exchange of DNA did not blur the bears into one species.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The time scale of the shutter or the strobe must match the time scale of motion of the object – if not, the image will be blurred.
    Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Vietnam banned the film’s release, while the Philippines asked the studio to blur the lines.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Use it to smooth out wrinkles, blur fine lines, and help heal scarring.
    Neha Tandon, womenshealthmag.com, 1 May 2023
  • And silk proteins amp up the blurring and plumping effects of the serum.
    Katie Intner, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Leave it to Frank Gehry, then, to blur the lines between the two disciplines.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Sometimes, though, the border between this world and the other one seems to blur.
    Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Allen police edited the 5½ minute video to blur faces of civilians and victims.
    oregonlive, 30 June 2023
  • Everything was blurred and bleeped, which made the whole thing that much weirder.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Images of the victims and officers' notes were blurred out.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, that portion of the flower looked like when a person's face is blurred on TV.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
  • But their movements were enough to blur details in many images.
    PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
  • An image blurred by police shows the shooter down in the lobby, near a second set of glass doors.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Being called slurs as a kid blurs into my encounter with the Times Square vendor.
    Sarah John, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Late nights blur into early mornings as people go from one good time to the next.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • That dependence could pose problems and could blur the lines between the two brands.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • One evening in late January the sky was so thick with stars that the bones of the constellations blurred into the background.
    Dennis Overbye Marcos Zegers, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • As the major books are all set in the same universe, which Sanderson calls the Cosmere, they’re all but meant to blur together.
    Jason Kehe, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Part of the shooter's body is blurred in the moments depicting and following the shooting.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • And the parallel between The White Lotus and reality seemed blurred at the time.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
  • During all of the tests, images of people’s faces were blurred and data was kept for a maximum of 14 days.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • While the lines are sharp on features like the lips and eyes, the hair and other details are blurred with spray paint, adding a layer of softness to each portrait.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Many of the spaces will blur the line between indoor and outdoor living.
    Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
  • No doubt, the line between menswear and womenswear will continue to blur by way of both casting and design.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Time passes, events blur and resolve over the next several weeks.
    Jordan P. Hickey, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In his models the boundaries between colors are fuzzy, each shade blurring into the next.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024

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