Get to know Blinks better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
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Blinks meaning
a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae).
Synonyms of Blinks
Using Blinks
- The main meaning on this page is: a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae).
- Useful related words include: blinking chickweed, water chickweed, montia lamprosperma, indian lettuce.
- In the example corpus, blinks often appears in combinations such as: who blinks, blinks first, one blinks.
Context around Blinks
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blinks
- In this selection, "blinks" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, barely, ours, someone, first and stands stand out and add context to how "blinks" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and barely blinks when the and and nobody blinks an eye. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blinks" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blinks
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ours blinks from white to color and it will be beautiful with ornaments. (13 words)
All the bridges over the bay have tolls, and nobody blinks an eye. (13 words)
Fury blinks, stands, and is instructed by referee Jack Reiss to jog to his left. (15 words)
As soon as the regular season ends, all of the players drafted in 2017 become eligible for long-term extensions, so it's going to come down to a staring contest between Watson and Patrick Mahomes to see who blinks first, and inks a new deal. (46 words)
It’s still a showdown, the GOP led Legislature and Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly, and they’re holding their cards near their chests and looking at each other’s eyes to see who blinks first. (35 words)
After that very public display and spectacle, it’s going to come down to who blinks first – the player, or the Patriots’ rookie coach and new regime. (27 words)
Example sentences (18)
He steals gas, loots Home Depot and barely blinks when the power grid goes down; after all, he’s got a huge generator in his backyard.
Ours blinks from white to color and it will be beautiful with ornaments.
Well, experts have explained that the way someone blinks might just indicate whether or not they’re telling you a porky.
After that very public display and spectacle, it’s going to come down to who blinks first – the player, or the Patriots’ rookie coach and new regime.
He’s not a person but a parade, and it works, all of it at once, because Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson never blinks.
We have members posting racial pictures in their school board email and no one blinks an eye.
All the bridges over the bay have tolls, and nobody blinks an eye.
As soon as the regular season ends, all of the players drafted in 2017 become eligible for long-term extensions, so it's going to come down to a staring contest between Watson and Patrick Mahomes to see who blinks first, and inks a new deal.
Fury blinks, stands, and is instructed by referee Jack Reiss to jog to his left.
She then bends over and picks up her plate to smell her food nine times before she blinks again.
Until Saudi Arabia and Russia call off the ‘who blinks first’ game, Brent may trade in the $30-35 a barrel range.
A total of 96 customers were affected by outages, though others may have experienced blinks or voltage dips from lightning, spokeswoman Erica Erland said.
His eyes start to water, but he blinks the tears away just before a sous chef walks past.
It’s still a showdown, the GOP led Legislature and Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly, and they’re holding their cards near their chests and looking at each other’s eyes to see who blinks first.
Once upon a time, their presence was heralded with a press release; now, no one blinks a fake eyelash.
Think about the lights of the midway at dusk, the blinks and the spins and the colors of the rainbow that will flicker.
In a sense, it is eyeball-to-eyeball on border security and immigration, and who blinks first could very well be determined by the midterm elections.
The fact is we all know he will sign, it’s just a matter of who blinks first….
Common combinations with blinks
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- who blinks 7×
- blinks first 7×
- one blinks 2×
- blinks an 2×