The word "blinking" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something occurred rapidly and unexpectedly. For example: "She found out the news and was blinking in disbelief."
They show the sky quite electric, and a view across rooftops: washing giddy on the line, television sets blinking, a couple dancing beneath the brilliant sky.
"The day that we ran out of water I turned on my faucet and nothing was there and at that moment I knew the whole of Barnhart was down the tubes," she said, blinking back tears.
"We are women who had to think, not of preparing the bedroom of our future child but his funeral," she says blinking back tears.
It would be absurd to pretend he can transform Labour's fortunes in the blinking of an eye.
I can think of no better fate for film websites than to function as online time capsules, destined to be rediscovered by technologically advanced future generations, who'll laugh at the way we used to consume media as they download the latest trailers directly into their cerebral cortexes by blinking.
Then I noticed an icon blinking on my phone.
The lights are low and atmospheric, fairy lights blink around a bar stacked with wine bottles.
Something is happening in the fragment of time when the shutter blinks and sees – and something looks back.
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.
