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.
  • Police say bike was in truck driver’s blind spot as the truck turned right.
    Joseph A. Gambardello, Philly.com, 22 June 2018
  • Data from seafloor cables could fill in blind spots in these seismic CT scans.
    Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 14 June 2018
  • Team reconnaissance aims to fill in those blind spots as fully as possible.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 15 June 2018
  • New technologies like satellite imagery offer a promising remedy to this blind spot.
    Annette M. Kim, The Atlantic, 5 June 2018
  • Photograph: Stephen Voss Sullivan’s blind spot wasn’t just about economics.
    Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
  • These data are insightful, but there are still huge blind spots in our understanding of Pell recipient completion trends and patterns.
    Andrew Howard Nichols, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • While the inclusion of parents is a positive, 13 Reasons Why had some glaring blind spots in its portrayal of home lives.
    refinery29.com, 24 May 2018
  • The moral gymnastics that sanction eating meat without killing are as full of ethical blind spots as agriculture and industry — the disconnections do not change the results.
    Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2018
  • GLY Construction crews will separate and widen the paths for pedestrians and bicyclists, and round out a sharp corner of the trail that creates a blind spot for some riders.
    Michelle Baruchman, The Seattle Times, 11 June 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
  • In-dash alarms are available to warn of people in a bus driver’s blind spot.
    Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • 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 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

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