How to Use blur in a Sentence

blur

1 of 2 noun

• The rest of the night was a blur of dessert and dancing.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
• The hours that followed the call were a teary blur, Mike said.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Kristi said the rest of the night was a bit of a blur, as the group had been drinking.
  — Sarah Portney, NBC News, 31 May 2023
• Much of what King said is now a blur to the 76-year-old LeVias.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
• The threads of lace — red and white — in the foreground are painted in a blur.
  — Nick Glass, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
• This time, the rising sun lit up a pink blur on the white sand.
  — Michael Adno, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
• While the past year has been a blur and a balancing act for the group, the one ahead looks bright.
  — Concetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2023
• The time in between losing our son and now is still a blur.
  — Jessy Wilson, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2022
• Every parent knows that the past and the future are a blur.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
• Still, a few econoboxes manage to stand out from the blur.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 1 June 2023
• The next, Lamont Butler sliced through the lane for a blur of a layup.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
• Then up comes his racquet head from the middle of his back in a blur and . . .
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• A lot of what happened that day remains hazy, kind of a blur.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• The final seconds were a blur played against the sound of whistling that threatened to make ears bleed.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• That said, the guitarist is still making sense of it, since the recording process was a blur.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2023
• Lavrov was still stuck — and the months after his friends got out were a blur of misery.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• The city of Paris zips by in a blur, looking like a Monet painting.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
• The rest of that day is a blur as my psyche was so traumatized.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
• The ceremony itself was kind of a blur, but in the best way.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• Our weekends were a nonstop blur of games and recitals.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 24 Nov. 2022
• Then, his days at the office pass by in a blur of meetings and fittings.
  — Rory Satran, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• Paper birch and jack pines pass in a blur, and light shimmers as the sun rises.
  — Deborah Reid, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023
• The next two years were a blur of suitcases, tryouts and new cities.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2022
• Sorry about the blur, those puppies don’t stay still long enough.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• Riding up in the elevator, the blue lines rush by in a blur.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• When Marty gets inside and guns for 88 miles per hour, the screens around the stage blur behind him.
  — Theater Review Aug. 3, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2023
• Walsh, 19, of Cambridge, New York, said what occurred next was a blur.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2023
• My first day at Friends, in July 2000, was a nerve-racking blur.
  — Time, 21 Aug. 2023
• Everything is focused on her reactions; even the backgrounds are a blur.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• The blur of numbers, no matter how sliced or diced, underscore where San Diego State is most vulnerable as win-or-go-home games arrive.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024

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blur

2 of 2 verb

• The tears in my eyes blurred the words on the page.
• The two events have blurred together in my mind.
• His novel is based on historical occurrences but it blurs the line between fact and fiction.
• The sharpness of pain fades, and faces in our mind blur, details are lost to time.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
• But the exchange of DNA did not blur the bears into one species.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• The time scale of the shutter or the strobe must match the time scale of motion of the object – if not, the image will be blurred.
  — Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• Vietnam banned the film’s release, while the Philippines asked the studio to blur the lines.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Use it to smooth out wrinkles, blur fine lines, and help heal scarring.
  — Neha Tandon, womenshealthmag.com, 1 May 2023
• And silk proteins amp up the blurring and plumping effects of the serum.
  — Katie Intner, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2023
• Leave it to Frank Gehry, then, to blur the lines between the two disciplines.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
• Sometimes, though, the border between this world and the other one seems to blur.
  — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Allen police edited the 5½ minute video to blur faces of civilians and victims.
  — oregonlive, 30 June 2023
• Everything was blurred and bleeped, which made the whole thing that much weirder.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
• Images of the victims and officers' notes were blurred out.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Instead, that portion of the flower looked like when a person's face is blurred on TV.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
• But their movements were enough to blur details in many images.
  — PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
• An image blurred by police shows the shooter down in the lobby, near a second set of glass doors.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2023
• Being called slurs as a kid blurs into my encounter with the Times Square vendor.
  — Sarah John, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• Late nights blur into early mornings as people go from one good time to the next.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• That dependence could pose problems and could blur the lines between the two brands.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• One evening in late January the sky was so thick with stars that the bones of the constellations blurred into the background.
  — Dennis Overbye Marcos Zegers, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• As the major books are all set in the same universe, which Sanderson calls the Cosmere, they’re all but meant to blur together.
  — Jason Kehe, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
• Part of the shooter's body is blurred in the moments depicting and following the shooting.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
• And the parallel between The White Lotus and reality seemed blurred at the time.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• During all of the tests, images of people’s faces were blurred and data was kept for a maximum of 14 days.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
• While the lines are sharp on features like the lips and eyes, the hair and other details are blurred with spray paint, adding a layer of softness to each portrait.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• Many of the spaces will blur the line between indoor and outdoor living.
  — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
• No doubt, the line between menswear and womenswear will continue to blur by way of both casting and design.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
• Now, this skin-enhancing and blurring foundation stick joins the fray, thanks to its flawless finish and range of shades.
  — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 29 Mar. 2024
• Rather, the political backdrop is evoked to elevate the film’s tragedy and blur the righteousness of its characters, many of whom are possessed by a moral obligation to commit acts of violence.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024