BLINDS in a Sentence

Learn BLINDS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
275 example sentences for BLINDS, such as:
1. Love blinds a man to imperfections.
2. His blindness is the result of an accident.
3. Don't just blindly accept what you are told.
4. When anger blinds the mind, truth disapears.
5. When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BLINDS
blinds
 a.  unable to see
 n.  a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  So he wished to say; but said nothing; and the breeze went lolloping along the corridors, blowing the blinds out.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
2  It was another red brick house, with black outside shutters, green inside blinds, a black street-door up two white steps, a brazen door-plate, and a brazen door-handle full stop.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
3  He passed a great many public-houses; but, at length paused before one in a by-way, whose parlour, as he gathered from a hasty peep over the blinds, was deserted, save by one solitary customer.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  The blinds of Eustacia's bedroom were still closely drawn, for she was no early riser.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
5  The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
6  He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
7  The drawn blinds and the smokeless chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight of this horror still lay heavy upon it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
8  Our blinds were half-drawn, and Holmes lay curled upon the sofa, reading and re-reading a letter which he had received by the morning post.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
9  Holmes stepped up to the window, closed it, and dropped the blinds.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
10  The sun was pouring in slanting rays through the blinds and there was something so joyous in the sight of it that she jumped out of bed and ran to the window.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  She drew up the blinds and opened the window itself and a great waft of fresh, scented air blew in upon her.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  It is certainly ten years since the house had been occupied," said Chateau-Renaud, "and it was quite melancholy to look at it, with the blinds closed, the doors locked, and the weeds in the court.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 63. The Dinner.
13  From the apartments on the ground-floor might be heard the sound of music, with the whirl of the waltz and galop, while brilliant streams of light shone through the openings of the Venetian blinds.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 70. The Ball.
14  A minute afterwards the blinds were thrown open, and through the jessamine and clematis that overhung the window one could see the garden ornamented with lanterns, and the supper laid under the tent.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 70. The Ball.
15  Truly, it is I who am mad, and you prove to me that passion blinds the most well-meaning.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  When anger blinds the mind, truth disapears.
2  When anger blinds the mind, truth disappears.
3  Love blinds a man to imperfections.
4  The two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery.
5  Don't just blindly accept what you are told.
6  Without adequate information, many students choose a college almost blindly.
7  Don't just blindly follow what the banker says.
8  Never copy foreign things blindly or mechanically.
9  The reflection of the sun on the glass wall was blinding.
10  It causes blindness or serious loss of vision.
11  In extreme cases, the disease can lead to blindness.
12  His blindness is the result of an accident.
13  That most of us miss the irony is a vivid demonstration of our blindness.
14  If diabetes is not diagnosed early, or if it is poorly managed, he said, it can result in blindness, heart disease, stroke, and kidney failure.
15  He was too puffed up with his own importance, too blinded by vanity to accept their verdict on him.