How to Use blindfolded in a Sentence

blindfolded

adjective
  • The doctor was put into the van, blindfolded and bound.
    Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In one of the first episodes, the blindfolded women have to identify their own sons by fondling the men’s abs.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And then the guns and those blindfolded American hostages?
    Mehrsa Baradaran, Slate Magazine, 27 Jan. 2017
  • The lights come up on a blindfolded cowboy in jeans and a T-shirt strapped into an electric chair.
    Ethan Mordden, WSJ, 5 May 2017
  • The doctor was bundled into the van, blindfolded and bound.
    Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • State of the Franchise: If the Jazz are on a windy road without a guardrail, the Clippers are playing dodgeball while blindfolded.
    Danny Leroux, SI.com, 15 May 2017
  • Finding the outfield more to her liking, the blindfolded Mia darted with glee toward the sound of ball beeps in her zone.
    Sara Cardine, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
  • For the group's final feat, the blindfolded man sliced an apple between the heads of two partners with a chainsaw.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • One video broadcast by ABC shows a blindfolded man balanced on a stool in the middle of a room, his arms bound and fastened to the ceiling.
    Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Loveday Morris, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017
  • Others line up for pukpok palo, using a stick while blindfolded to break a clay pot filled with flour.
    Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • In one video, a blindfolded man speaks on a cellphone proffered by his captors.
    James Marson and Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Each episode involves two blindfolded chefs getting blasted in the face with a cannon full of food.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 3 Apr. 2020
  • One shows a blindfolded woman holding a scale of justice that lies askance.
    Mike Ives, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
  • Fix himself drives the blindfolded audience (in a creepy white van) to the location of the show from a meeting place on a street corner.
    Maxwell Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2017
  • On the table were stuffed animals — many of them blindfolded.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The names were placed in sealed envelopes and a blindfolded elections board chairman plucked one from a silver loving cup.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • Photos and videos of the raid released by Saudi Arabia showed four blindfolded men in the custody of soldiers.
    Jared Malsin, WSJ, 25 June 2019
  • How exactly does a firing squad work?It's not like the movies, with a blindfolded victim in front of a line of riflemen.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 28 Sep. 2018
  • In Mexico City, a square full of women of all ages, some of them blindfolded, joined a similar flash mob on Nov. 29.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Weick wanted to find out whether this effect would show up in a blindfolded person trying to walk in a straight line.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2016
  • Frazee and Berreth’s daughter was at home when the mother was blindfolded and beaten to death, Lee testified.
    Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
  • In the most graphic scene, soldiers stand around a group of blindfolded Palestinian men whose hands are tied behind their backs.
    Caroline Radnofsky, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Would his smile be intact for a blindfolded three-legged race hosted by Mila Kunis in episode two?
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Tice was blindfolded and forced to recite a prayer Muslims say before dying.
    Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2020
  • There's dribbling the ball in figure 8 patterns while blindfolded.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Indeed many piñatas now have a string to open a door that releases candy — not every parent these days likes the idea of a blindfolded child waving a stick.
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
  • Yet another video depicts a bound and blindfolded Palestinian man who appears to have blood on his head and arm.
    Caroline Radnofsky, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • For one bit, a blindfolded member of the four-person group took a sword and sliced coconuts resting on another member's neck.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Other videos have shown groups of unarmed men held in similar conditions, without clothes, bound and blindfolded.
    Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 11 Dec. 2023
  • According to the couple, they were tied up, blindfolded and eventually sedated before Huskins was spirited away in the trunk of a car.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024

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