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.
  • Shipping companies light-load their ships due to such blind spots.
    Joe Guillen, Axios, 29 July 2024
  • Secondly, what are your blind spots about where and how phone use might be limiting the rest of your life?
    Terri R. Kurtzberg, The Conversation, 26 Nov. 2019
  • This book, in its blazing assurance, tells a thin and partial tale, frayed by silences that feel more like blind spots than like the canny omissions of old.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Traditionally, wide receiver has been the rare Belichick blind spot in the draft.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Sightlines are without blind spots and the AroundView monitor gives front, overhead and rear views.
    Mark Maynard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • This sort of ideological blind spot would be worrisome coming from anyone.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Our tester found that when placed in areas that had natural blind spots, the lights were less effective than in areas where the motion sensor was unobstructed.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The intersection also has a blind spot at the corner, where drivers like the forklift operator have trouble peering out to see if the path is clear.
    Megan O'Matz, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Seat belts will be checked for proper fit and the driver will be briefed on awareness of potential blind spots, checking doors for secure closure and checking the safety of other occupants.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • But internally, the documents describe facilities with police stations at the front gates, high guard towers, one-button alarms and video surveillance with no blind spots.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Lots of cars costing a small fraction of the Chiron's price have things like blind spot alert systems, lane-keeping assistance and even adaptive cruise control to help prevent collisions on the road.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 5 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • There could be a blind spot where fine print is concerned.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If this is what the first batch looks like, the rest seem guaranteed to bend our perception of the sun as a blinding spot in the sky.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Your discussions with Luke have hit a brick wall because Luke has a blind spot.
    Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2021
  • In the surveillance footage available, there is a blip of a blind spot in the angles seen, a point the defense has focused on.
    Jonathan Mattise, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • And public health's data blind spot is poised to grow larger.
    Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2021

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