How to Use unblinking in a Sentence

unblinking

adjective
  • The book provides an unblinking view of the causes of the war.
  • Through her swim mask, her eyes are wide and unblinking, staring at the sun.
    James Nestor, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2012
  • But don’t let that — or the movie’s many unblinking, up-close scenes of human surgery — scare you off.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • Brent lay on his back, his unblinking eyes staring at the cliffs above.
    Alden Woods, azcentral, 18 Apr. 2018
  • So potent that the stone stands in for the evil eye, warding off jealousy, a blank blue eye open and unblinking.
    Mariam Rahmani, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The meaning of the image is ambiguous, but one’s mind travels to the question of who is looking down at the subject in this unblinking way.
    The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The film gives an unblinking look at the flaws in an American justice system that let tens of thousands or more rape kits go untested for years.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Feinstein stared straight ahead, unblinking, for nearly 30 seconds as the fury washed over her.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Author Bruce Boston writes with the voice of a poet, the heart of a bodhisattva, and the unblinking eye of an investigative reporter.
    Daniel Marcus, WIRED, 1 Mar. 1995
  • The royal wedding is scheduled for Saturday, and Meghan has been trying out some of the duties royal life will bring her – all under the unblinking eye of the media.
    Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
  • Through an unblinking black eyeball, a 20-foot-high scarlet octopus ogles my lunch.
    Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
  • Ferrell’s Steyer gives a short speech while approaching the camera, his unblinking face soon filling the entire frame.
    Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Electronics evolve, with ever cheaper cameras and radar turning unblinking eyes to the road ahead (and behind).
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The truth is that kids who are considered unblinking and uncool academic strivers are teased by everyone.
    Damon Young, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
  • From the air, the new garden in the town of Boki Diawe, in northeast Senegal, looks like an eye: wide open, unblinking, and flanked by a smattering of divots dug in the surrounding soil, dark like freckles across a nose.
    Jessica Leigh Hester, Wired, 21 Aug. 2021
  • But the most absorbing pieces are those in which Gurba turns her unblinking gaze to life’s cruelties, weaving together disparate threads that somehow hold in the end.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • A certain unblinking doggedness is one of the traits the Gelbs share with their subject, the leading American practitioner of the jumbo-length dramatic event.
    Jeremy McCarter, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
  • As each passage is being read, it’s accompanied by an unblinking shot of the same address in Amsterdam, filmed during the present day.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • Other photographers were focusing on the optimism and prosperity of the 1950s, but Mr. Frank gazed through the unblinking eye of his Leica and saw a much bleaker prospect.
    Andrew Marton, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • A woman’s unblinking eyes register the flickering of lights.
    Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2017
  • In the three years since the start of the Iran nuclear agreement, a cluster of buildings near the Austrian capital has served as an unblinking eye over Tehran's most sensitive factories and research labs.
    Author: Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2018
  • In the three years since the start of the Iran nuclear agreement, a cluster of buildings near the Austrian capital has served as an unblinking eye over Tehran’s most sensitive factories and research labs.
    Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
  • With WAMI, a drone can point its unblinking eye at the ground below, capturing a medium definition image twice a second.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2017
  • At one crucial point, Camille raises her eyes at Clarkson’s Adora with a look of unblinking defiance that says her mother’s mistreatment will no longer be ignored.
    Matthew Eng, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Tall and lanky, Crombie’s character had a flat, borderline menacing affect and an unblinking 1,000-yard stare.
    Aimee Ortiz, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
  • While Owens’ subject matter is a far cry from the gritty freneticism depicted by Davidson and Lyon, his images are biting and unblinking.
    Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Make unblinking eye contact and launch into a lengthy monologue about how Sacred Geometry proves God is a triangle.
    Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 31 July 2023
  • There is no malice in any of this, just a simple, unblinking desperation to be viewed as the popular pensive gentleman Jordan sees himself as.
    refinery29.com, 26 June 2018
  • The second video is the background, a canvas of unblinking devastation: burning cars, falling bodies, raging crowds.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 9 May 2018
  • Woods at his apex would send shivers through press conferences with his unblinking confidence, a trait Koepka has apparently adopted.
    Chris Brodeur, courant.com, 13 June 2019

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