How to Use blinker in a Sentence

blinker

1 of 2 noun

• No blinker, but the back of his truck was over the front part of our car.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2017
• The car was still running and the right blinker was flashing.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 30 May 2017
• In the Preakness, Bourbon War raced with blinkers for the first time.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
• The driver shut off his blinker, turned our way and picked us up.
  — Jon Gluck, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Along with right blinker flashing, the brake lights were still on.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017
• Bill Mott adds blinkers for the son of Tapit in an effort to help him focus more.
  — Bob Clancy, courant.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Have a good laugh over this eight-ounce bottle of blinker fluid.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 7 Oct. 2022
• The car was running, the brake lights were on, and the right blinker was flashing, according to police records.
  — Olivia Hitchcock, ajc, 30 May 2017
• After hitting the bird, the driver of the van pulled over and turned on their emergency blinkers.
  — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
• To be fair, his work vehicle doesn't have any blinkers.
  — Nick Schwartz, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
• In theory, people could turn on a blinker and steer to the side of the highway if the car slipped into neutral at 70 mph.
  — Freep.com, 11 July 2019
• His car was on the side of a six-lane Florida road, the engine running and his right blinker flashing.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017
• Trainer Todd Pletcher adds blinkers, so look for this colt to be prominent from the start.
  — courant.com, 7 June 2019
• The Audi mirrors reflect a little chunk of rear hip and two lanes on either side, all steady and ready for your blinker.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2022
• Trainer Stanley Gold, who has won a record 18 Sire Stakes events, feels the addition of blinkers could help his horse turn the tables.
  — Tom Jicha, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Dezeen Wear Space is, for lack of a better description, like equine blinkers for humans.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 18 Oct. 2018
• Police found Tiger Woods asleep at the wheel on the side of a six-lane Florida road in the dark of morning, the engine running and his right blinker flashing.
  — Doug Ferguson, courant.com, 30 May 2017
• Eric drove a short way, before switching on his blinker and turning right on Lamar Street.
  — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• Tacitus, wearing blinkers for the first time, had the lead in the back stretch before Mucho Gusto moved alongside at the half-mile pole and edged in front.
  — John Kekis, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2019
• It's got blinkers, brake lights, seat belts, insurance.
  — Melinda Morris, NOLA.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Hollendorfer obliged, adding small blinkers prior to the triumph at Del Mar by 61/4 lengths in the Shared Belief.
  — Mike Tierney, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Turn on your blinker while Tesla's Autopilot is driving and the car obliges, moving into the next lane over.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2017
• The flashing turn signal, or blinker, has been a standard safety feature on cars since 1939.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017
• Trainer , who is winning 30% at the meet and four of eight recently, adds blinkers today to keep the horse more involved early.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2020
• Today, many blinkers are computer-controlled and the clicking sound comes from the speakers.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• Hagman said Volvo's team went into the forest and recorded about 300 sticks breaking to get the source audio file needed for the blinker.
  — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 24 Feb. 2020
• Trainer Todd Pletcher, winning at better than 50 percent at this meet, adds blinkers for the colt's second start as a 3-year-old.
  — courant.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Surveillance video from the pizza place shows a black Audi turning slowly into the lot with its blinker on.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2021
• At the suggestion of jockey Flavien Prat, Hollendorfer put blinkers on the 3-year-old colt to sharpen his focus.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 3 Nov. 2017
• The front of the boxes had been cut out, allowing students to see their desks and exam sheets but restricting their vision, similar to blinkers used on a horse.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019

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blinker

2 of 2 verb

• But the true offense comes from the blinkered and completely tone deaf script by Justin Malen.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2017
• But, the true offense comes from the blinkered and completely tone deaf script by Justin Malen.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• But, the true offense comes from the blinkered and completely tone-deaf script by Justin Malen.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Lloyd, the boomer, is well-meaning, kind, liberal, and blinkered.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2023
• In choosing to keep good movies out rather than letting more movies in, Cannes is blinkering itself to the modern age.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2018
• But a meme is just more data, blinkered and bastardized; one thing that cannot be information is a work of art.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• To many younger Georgians, pro-Stalin views like these are both blinkered and disturbing.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 30 June 2019
• Trump’s blinkered view could actually be good news for Democrats.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Dec. 2017
• Whether we are also meant to see her as blinkered (as if faith and science are mutually exclusive) is less clear at that point.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
• Some stars’ behavior has come across blinkered and clueless, as when Ellen DeGeneres compared staying in her palatial home to being in jail.
  — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 6 May 2020
• But to treat issues such as affirmative action, cultural appropriation, and the like in the same way is blinkered and facile.
  — John McWhorter, National Review, 5 July 2017
• This blinkered outlook, says McFaul, would also make any Putin-Trump summit extremely risky.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Deep time makes a mockery of the plantations’ blinkered order; under the ancient canopy, the master’s stride falters and the voices of African hunters and Amerindian priests resound from the depths of unrecorded millenniums.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2018
• Business school instruction is routinely blinkered in this way.
  — John Benjamin, The New Republic, 14 May 2018
• While many of us may be blinkered by our loyalty to past experience, there are those able to see—and anticipate—beyond these limitations.
  — John Vaillant, Time, 7 June 2023
• Xerox brass were further blinkered by the company’s heritage in copying rather than creating documents, Berlin adds.
  — Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• In his eyes the humanities today are static and blinkered, hamstrung by their failure to acknowledge their evolutionary roots.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• Nonetheless, what is driving its current behavior are some deeper — and creepy — similarities to the arrogant and blinkered Old South.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2017
• The very notion of an Amazonian island—of isolation and segregation—comes off, in the light of experience, as a narrowing and blinkering background.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
• Old media could be held to account for its cozy relationships, its disclosure failures, its hiring practices and its blinkered or slanted coverage — real or perceived.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2016
• But blinkering yourself is no substitute for the thinking person's conscientious digital objection: choosing not to stream that movie—or clicking Unfollow.
  — The Editors, The Atlantic, 8 July 2017
• But for all her father’s righteous resistance to authority, his parenting was by turns blinkered, oppressive and physically abusive.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• But perspectives that seem blinkered at best and calculating at worst in the original series — usually attributed to these older women — become grimly legible because of their backstories.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• The media’s political and geographic biases may have skewed their Trump coverage, but their racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities blinker their coverage in all sorts of ways every day.
  — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 27 Apr. 2017
• That blinkered assumption continues to resonate today, not least among city officials across the continent who felt manipulated by Amazon, according to people familiar with their thinking.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2020
• Obtuse with innocence, blinkered by a lifetime of dissimulation before authority, E was slow to realize that many of these men—including his brother—were homosexual.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
• Guevara’s disciplinarianism and blinkered devotion to revolution was often on display.
  — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
• But the true offense comes from the blinkered and completely tone deaf script by Justin Malen.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2017
• But, the true offense comes from the blinkered and completely tone deaf script by Justin Malen.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• But, the true offense comes from the blinkered and completely tone-deaf script by Justin Malen.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017

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