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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• New Yorkers who had creative blinders on and weren’t able to see beyond two feet in front of them began to adopt a different perspective in their process.
  — Ryan Leas, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023
• Those eye blinders that racehorses wear so they don’t get distracted?
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• Do your best to put your blinders on, avoid letting their negative comments slow down your ambition, and keep on keeping on.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2023
• Jennie wanted to remain isolated from the changes that are happening and put blinders on.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were happy to take Weinstein’s money too, blinders clamped on.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 25 Jan. 2020
• Most of the artists in Golden’s shows at the Whitney have become prominent in a transformed art world where, now that the blinders are off, there is no doubt about the importance and centrality of their work in America’s cultural history.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024