How to Use blind spot in a Sentence

blind spot

noun
  • When driving on the highway, you need to make sure no one is in your blind spot before changing lanes.
  • She has a blind spot concerning her son's behavior.
  • In-dash alarms are available to warn of people in a bus driver’s blind spot.
    Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Whether due to helplessness or denial, this blind spot can be remedied.
    Susan Pinker, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
  • Yet chief among the blind spots in climate models is the stability of the ice at the bottom of the world.
    Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
  • In this case, Alice Walker wasn’t just exposing a blind spot.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Katherine is a dinosaur who needs a woke, youthful guide to illuminate the blind spots that come with her age, race and privilege.
    Eliza Berman, Time, 6 June 2019
  • Other blind spots revealed by Burning Man have simple solutions.
    Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2018
  • The new regulations included that at least two people operate the boats and that cameras be used to prevent blind spots for the drivers.
    Alejandro Lazo, WSJ, 21 July 2018
  • The result is an unflinching piece of art that demands your attention, shining a spotlight on the Western world’s convenient moral blind spots.
    Sara Ibrahim, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
  • In Leadership Feedback is essential in leadership, serving as a mirror to our blind spots and a guide for our development journey.
    Dr. Flo Falayi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • All the other advanced driver assists—forward collision avoidance, adaptive cruise and lane keeping, blind spot video cameras, rear cross-traffic alerts, and more—are standard across the Nexo range.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2018
  • For one, this has to do with a blind spot in ICMR’s own study.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The right side of the vehicle has a much greater blind spot than the left.
    Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Benavidez, 52, was caught in one of the haul truck’s blind spots and crushed to death.
    Mark Olalde, AZCentral.com, 26 June 2019
  • There could be a blind spot where fine print is concerned.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2020
  • One look at the broad wrap of roof at the rear pillars and hatch lid and critics point to blind spots.
    (james Halfacre), San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
  • Always keep other skiers in mind, and don’t stand in a blind spot.
    Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Move your hand back and forth out of the blind spot, or simply take your eyes away from the lens, and the spell is broken.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
  • This crisis has revealed a huge blind spot for many of us.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • And then that has been a blind spot that the greater Utah community has had.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • If the answer is yes, then that means our current search for life has a huge blind spot.
    Kiona N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
  • Chark hasn't been afraid to talk about mental health, which used to be a blind spot for many NFL players.
    Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The edges light up to alert the rider of other cars approaching from blind spots.
    Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Patel’s comments about Meghan are not just a blind spot.
    Kieran Yates, refinery29.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Soon, Rozman cracked the bot’s code — Martin seemed to have a blind spot for pawns — and beat him, twice, laughing the whole time.
    Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • So when people in the future start reading the Egyptians’ records, there are a lot of blind spots.
    National Geographic, 2 July 2019
  • The study’s results include: 49% of owners said blind spot alert helped avoid a crash.
    Mark Phelan, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • The twist Saturday was a guard coming along the baseline, in his blind spot.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Her latest magnum opus came out of her own blind spots.
    Ted Loos, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2023

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