Below you will find example sentences with "blind eye". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Blind Eye in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: blind
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 29.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 0 start, 10 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "blind eye" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as turn a blind eye to the, turned a blind eye to the, turning, turn and police stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with eye contact, see eye, blind spot, blind spot, blind spots and turning blind, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with blind eye
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Mr Lasso, 67, has been accused of turning a blind eye to embezzlement. (13 words)
Naidu urged residents not to turn a blind eye to suspicious activities, but to report them to the police. (19 words)
She claimed some building managers are aware of the shady trade and are paid to turn a blind eye. (19 words)
The aforementioned reports and testimonies have made it quite clear that humans can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to their environment, and urgent actions at a global level are needed to address and restrict the rise in temperature. (41 words)
Because the Switch is underpowered they’ve actually experimented quite a bit already with cloud versions of third party games, so it’s not as if they’re turn a blind eye to it all, as they do sometimes. (39 words)
Living with her has been awful, and my wife turns a blind eye and refuses to acknowledge or do much about her behaviour because she feels guilt for not being there for her much when she was younger. (38 words)
Are the police blind to this activity, or is it a case of turning a blind eye for some fringe benefit? (21 words)
How long should the three Abrahamic religions turn a blind eye and be mute on this American law that recognizes same-sex marriage and thus gives its imprimatur to unacceptable sexual behavior? (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Are the police blind to this activity, or is it a case of turning a blind eye for some fringe benefit?
All of which is to say, Target, under the guise of “Being true to yourself and your community…” is turning a blind eye to Americans who Target sees as belonging to the wrong communities.
Along those lines, Kaylee's vanishing eyes and mouth could represent her turning a blind eye to the abuse of her brother or the punishment or failure to speak out about such trauma.
Baylor is accused of having a full-on gang rape problem with its football team. of turning a blind eye to multiple accusations of sexual assault by football players.
Because the Switch is underpowered they’ve actually experimented quite a bit already with cloud versions of third party games, so it’s not as if they’re turn a blind eye to it all, as they do sometimes.
Common-sense criminal justice reform doesn’t involve “defunding” the police, handing repeat criminals a “get out of jail free” card, normalizing anti-social behavior or turning a blind eye to victims.
Depending on where one is standing, it is easy to see why Southeastern Nigerians believe the government has turned a blind eye to the gory tales of activities mostly carried out in Southeast, Nigeria by Fulani herdsmen.
How long should the three Abrahamic religions turn a blind eye and be mute on this American law that recognizes same-sex marriage and thus gives its imprimatur to unacceptable sexual behavior?
I have no idea how that one managed to slip by unnoticed, but I suppose as long as you are the right things, people will turn a blind eye to what you do.
In “Anatomy of a Fall,” she plays a woman who may or may not have murdered her husband; in “The Zone of Interest,” she plays a woman turning a blind eye to her husband’s murders.
Inevitably this will mean serious reflection at its (ongoing) history of propping up dictators and turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in the name of diplomacy.
In other words, adults who oversaw these children entering the country and released them to a “sponsor” (sometimes that means “trafficker”) have turned a blind eye to the suffering and exploitation.
It will also 'change the behavior' of large players in the private sector who 'too often turn a blind eye' to the atrocity, he added.
Living with her has been awful, and my wife turns a blind eye and refuses to acknowledge or do much about her behaviour because she feels guilt for not being there for her much when she was younger.
Mr Lasso, 67, has been accused of turning a blind eye to embezzlement.
Muslims make war on each other, bomb and starve each other, turn a blind eye to the suffering of their brethren in other nations, and even make strategic pacts with the oppressors.
Naidu urged residents not to turn a blind eye to suspicious activities, but to report them to the police.
People in the Aralam area are tribes and we are being killed mercilessly by wild elephants, but the forest department turns a blind eye.
She claimed some building managers are aware of the shady trade and are paid to turn a blind eye.
The aforementioned reports and testimonies have made it quite clear that humans can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to their environment, and urgent actions at a global level are needed to address and restrict the rise in temperature.