How to Use blinding in a Sentence

blinding

adjective
  • Read on for the best, worst, and most blinding looks of the night.
    Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 17 Sep. 2017
  • And the blinding light of the sun can make distant stars hard to see.
    NBC News, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The sun comes out and transforms the bay to a blinding mirror.
    Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 7 May 2018
  • Then watch in awe as the video captures the wildest, most blinding moments of the headline set.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2018
  • No-one had the time to find a pin, and anyway there was a hand in the small of my back pushing me out into the blinding light.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2020
  • As the engine kicked up a blinding cloud of dust, Aldrin read aloud a steady stream of figures from the console.
    Stephen Witt, WIRED, 24 June 2019
  • Smith, still dazed from the blinding number on the scoreboard, sounded a bit star-struck by that idea.
    News Services, Twin Cities, 26 July 2019
  • Both notably give cheeks a blinding glow, and the palette is sure to bring the same radiance to lids.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Thick clouds of dust filtered the blinding sunlight as the agents stepped out of their vehicles.
    Felipe Fittipaldi, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Amid the blinding run was a buzzer-beating goal indicative of the Warriors’ rosy fate.
    Owen Pence, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2018
  • In short, the full blinding force of whiteness filled the President’s Room on Friday.
    Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 22 Jan. 2017
  • One day, while filling the lawnmower, I got sprayed in the face with gasoline, which is both painful and blinding.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
  • And a blinding dust storm swept across portions of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Big, strong and with blinding burst, Peterson has been the closest thing to Jim Brown that the game has seen in recent years.
    Mark Mravic, SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • News, giving the blinding diamond a quick flash to the camera.
    Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Besides a blinding wall of lights, White had one set piece on stage Friday: a stuffed zebra.
    Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Last week, a friend and I stepped out of a dark restaurant into the blinding New York afternoon sunlight.
    Rachel Besser, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2023
  • That came to mind as the sun turned from orange to a blinding red over the piercing blue water of Lake Superior.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
  • And the people and events involved shine a light on some of the complexities of class around the world — and the blinding allure of social media fame and wealth.
    Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2023
  • For six long days, a series of dog teams battled blinding blizzards and bitter sub-zero cold to get the serum through.
    CBS News, 2 Feb. 2020
  • This lewk comes in a somewhat more blinding color combo, with dark blue stripes layered on top of light blue stripes.
    Andrea Park, Teen Vogue, 29 May 2018
  • At a pivotal moment in the opera, Bartok calls forth a massive outburst, with blinding brass.
    New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • That small spark in your stomach fans into a blinding fire of the heart, but the beat-skipping first steps are the most innocent and magical of all.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The light had a night-driving effect, forcing us to squint and glossing the stage in a blinding glare, but otherwise didn't seem to serve a purpose.
    Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2017
  • For nine months, a thick, blinding cloud of smoke engulfed Qayyarah and the villages that surround it, turning people’s skin and sheep’s coats black from soot.
    Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • One of them featured a blinding neckplate with her name, and pointed black Christian Louboutin pumps rounded out her look.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2018
  • Is the current darkness too blinding to see actual light?
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The planet stands clearly out, visible as a bright point to the right of the centre of the image, which is blacked out by the coronagraph mask used to block the blinding light of the central star.
    Sarah Gray, Fortune, 5 July 2018
  • Considering all the fire and fireworks and lasers and smoke and blinding strobe lights and body-rattling bass, that really says something.
    Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
  • You were literally born to shine, regardless of whether that light is too blinding for others to handle.
    Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 14 June 2024

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