In a sentence
Six example sentences with blink, each labelled with its topic.
One blink at the wrong moment ruined the group portrait, so she fired six frames in quick succession.
Photography
Doctors watch for a blink when they brush the cornea, since the response tells them the nerve is intact.
Medicine
The headset counts every blink and dims the display when it decides the wearer has grown tired.
Technology
A blink lasts about a tenth of a second, and the brain quietly edits out the darkness so we never notice.
Science
The study counted each blink during a hard puzzle and found the rate dropped by half until the task ended.
Psychology
The eye-tracking headset registers a long blink as a click, so tired players sometimes jump without meaning to.
Gaming
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