How to Use blinder in a Sentence

blinder

noun
  • Their team played a blinder to beat us in the closing seconds of the match.
  • That is, should Democrats take the House, the blinders will tighten.
    Mark Helprin, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Leave it to blinders-on Ichiro to not know who Tom Brady was.
    Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 May 2018
  • Shaw could seem to have blinders on when he was focused on a project, Fox said.
    Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
  • When the world outside looks frightful, you might be tempted to put on the blinders.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2017
  • The players have excelled at putting the blinders on and resisting the urge to look down the road, past the next game on the schedule.
    Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Right now, though, the lords of the city and county fiefdoms have their blinders on doing their own thing.
    Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018
  • Or, perhaps it should be said, while wearing a thick set of blinders.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Yet the lawmaker seemed to have blinders on in his dealings with Bates.
    Patrick Danner, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Morrill has tried his best to keep his blinders on during Yale’s run to this stage of the tournament.
    Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 28 May 2018
  • Most wear large ear protectors and visors or blinders over one eye to help with focus and to reduce the glare of the lights.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • If the Target in Lake Forest has a sale on earmuffs and blinders, Nagy would be wise to fill a shopping cart or two.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Payton saw no reason to try to put blinders on his team or act as if the matchup with the Colts is just another game.
    Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Most shooters compete with a blinder on one eye to keep the muscles relaxed.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Sometimes those tools and means can function as blinders.
    Christopher Schaberg, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2018
  • The Post story shows how blinders warped behavior on all sides.
    William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 23 June 2017
  • For decades, Rolling Stone gripped tight to the beliefs and cultural blinders of that boomer beginning.
    Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In one, the photon wears blinders of sorts and ignores the atom entirely, leaving without even a nod.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Over her left eye is a small black rectangle, a blinder that blocks out one eye and allows greater focus in the other.
    Nick Miller, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
  • His tragedy now is no longer the threat of a career cut short, but the more banal one of a creative vision narrowed by the blinders of his own success.
    Elizabeth Toohey, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Springora wrote, recalling how the blinders fell from her eyes.
    Fox News, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Springora writes, recalling how the blinders fell from her eyes.
    Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2020
  • The reward was to sit back and see a big picture of the NFL and the game of football, as opposed to being in these buildings during the season with blinders on.
    Dave Skretta, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • The easy answer is also the most reasonable answer: with blinders on.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The author is quick to point out that these anthropologists still had their blinders.
    Rachel Newcomb, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • To the Navalny activists in Kurgan, many of whom are also in their late teens and early 20s, Putin’s backers are living with blinders on.
    Anton Troianovski, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
  • This country loves to see itself through the blinders of platitudes like those espoused by DeGeneres this week.
    Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Restoring California’s forests to health could take years, but the lesson of these fires is that the feds and state should drop their political blinders and do it.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
  • There are actual, real-world reasons to critique the NFL's blinder-heavy approach to the future.
    Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2020
  • In 2018, can journalists look past the blinders of contrived objectivity, stare straight into the camera and speak the plain truth?
    Will Bunch, Philly.com, 22 Feb. 2018

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