Sentence examples for blink from inspiring English sources

The lights are low and atmospheric, fairy lights blink around a bar stacked with wine bottles.

All he ever did back then was blink and stutter and furtively unwrap mints that had long since gone warm in his pocket.

Both sides are certainly calculating that the other will eventually blink first.

A cheerful blink from the console represents possibilities, and possibilities represent hope; it could be our agent, it could be the RSC, it could even be Spielberg.

These days, we barely even blink at the fact honours are routinely handed out by prime ministers to their mates or to establishment patsies.

We blink in horror as we watch the terrible things that people in the places we think of as our home can sometimes do to one another.

Everyone round the table knew after the fifth or sixth reference that it could only be the Spice Girl variety, and the evening became a contest between the raconteur and the rest of us as to who would blink first.

But it was Cannes, last year".Dashing my own hopes of fitting in, I gasp and blink when I realise Ricky Jay a character actor in David Mamet's films who happens to be the world's greatest and humblest magician and card-slinger is standing right behind me.

The company's publicity notes that the switch can take the equivalent of a nuclear power station offline in a 30th of the time it takes to blink an eye.

In 1973 an Arab-Israeli war brought Mr Brezhnev's Russia and Mr Nixon's America within an eye's blink of fighting each other.

The key to making the plan work, he explained, was not to blink first.