Sentence examples for wink out from inspiring English sources

In time to wink out forever.

"This is a species that could wink out in a few years," Mr. Holliday said.

Extinction is a process, not an event, Dr. MacPhee said, adding, "Most species do not wink out in an instant".

And that is as far as I get before one of the dogs yawns aloud and the moon slips out of the window frame, and we all wink out again.

On the dance floor, "everyone is diamonded with stars, /... everyone can star in their own film, / a musical where star-crossed lovers meet / and dance, and slow-dance underneath the stars / until the stars themselves blush and wink out".

Then the power shorts in the press salon and 100 PCs wink out to blackness; a blaze of half-written film reviews killed off at a stroke – a great and terrible disturbance in the force.

Snowden's video feed winked out to a standing ovation.

Her menagerie of miniature lions — she's a Leo — winks out from the shadows.

If Pluto had been airless, the light of the eclipsed star would have winked out suddenly.

For that matter, I never knew the American Indian tribes that winked out under the onslaught of the conquerors.

Ambition winks out from them, offering a hint of the seriousness that must underscore even the most casual of good restaurants in this city.