How to Use blinker in a Sentence

blinker

1 of 2 noun

• No blinker, but the back of his truck was over the front part of our car.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2017
• The driver shut off his blinker, turned our way and picked us up.
  — Jon Gluck, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Along with right blinker flashing, the brake lights were still on.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017
• The car was still running and the right blinker was flashing.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 30 May 2017
• Have a good laugh over this eight-ounce bottle of blinker fluid.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 7 Oct. 2022
• The nervous driver needs to put on her blinker and glance at her blind spot.
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
• The movie keeps viewers’ heads pointed straight ahead and fits them with blinkers.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
• After hitting the bird, the driver of the van pulled over and turned on their emergency blinkers.
  — Janice Gary, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2018
• Not turning on your blinkers when turning could result in fines up to $200.
  — Isa Almeida, Oklahoman, 15 Jan. 2026
• In the Preakness, Bourbon War raced with blinkers for the first time.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
• The car was running, the brake lights were on, and the right blinker was flashing, according to police records.
  — Olivia Hitchcock, ajc, 30 May 2017
• His car was on the side of a six-lane Florida road, the engine running and his right blinker flashing.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017
• Trainer Todd Pletcher adds blinkers, so look for this colt to be prominent from the start.
  — courant.com, 7 June 2019
• Eric drove a short way, before switching on his blinker and turning right on Lamar Street.
  — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• The Audi mirrors reflect a little chunk of rear hip and two lanes on either side, all steady and ready for your blinker.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2022
• Dezeen Wear Space is, for lack of a better description, like equine blinkers for humans.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 18 Oct. 2018
• Today, many blinkers are computer-controlled and the clicking sound comes from the speakers.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• The play-by-play man might shout out Mike Tomlin, the longtime coach and infrequent blinker.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
• In theory, people could turn on a blinker and steer to the side of the highway if the car slipped into neutral at 70 mph.
  — Freep.com, 11 July 2019
• Surveillance video from the pizza place shows a black Audi turning slowly into the lot with its blinker on.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2021
• The flashing turn signal, or blinker, has been a standard safety feature on cars since 1939.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017
• Turn on your blinker while Tesla's Autopilot is driving and the car obliges, moving into the next lane over.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2017
• The vehicle is also capable of changing lanes in hands-free mode if the driver activates the blinker.
  — Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 14 May 2025
• Trainer , who is winning 30% at the meet and four of eight recently, adds blinkers today to keep the horse more involved early.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2020
• There, black men complained of being stopped by the police for trivial reasons, like grabbing at their sagging pants or turning on their blinkers too soon while driving.
  — John Eligon, New York Times, 24 July 2017
• The front of the boxes had been cut out, allowing students to see their desks and exam sheets but restricting their vision, similar to blinkers used on a horse.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
• Hoping to improve Chief Wallabee’s focus, Mott will have the colt race in blinkers for the first time in the Derby.
  — Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
• Tacitus, wearing blinkers for the first time, had the lead in the back stretch before Mucho Gusto moved alongside at the half-mile pole and edged in front.
  — John Kekis, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2019
• The officer is already in the only drivable lane, when Wilks aggressively enters the lane without a blinker.
  — Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
• Back on the other side of town back near Union Station, two cars stopped at the station with their blinkers on during a Thursday afternoon stop.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026

blinker

2 of 2 verb

• And perhaps this view is blinkered.
  — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
• Lloyd, the boomer, is well-meaning, kind, liberal, and blinkered.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2023
• Trump’s blinkered view could actually be good news for Democrats.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Dec. 2017
• But a meme is just more data, blinkered and bastardized; one thing that cannot be information is a work of art.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• But the true offense comes from the blinkered and completely tone deaf script by Justin Malen.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2017
• Australia asked questions and should have set 300, but the favorites kept the match blinkers on.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
• But, the true offense comes from the blinkered and completely tone deaf script by Justin Malen.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• But, the true offense comes from the blinkered and completely tone-deaf script by Justin Malen.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• In choosing to keep good movies out rather than letting more movies in, Cannes is blinkering itself to the modern age.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2018
• To many younger Georgians, pro-Stalin views like these are both blinkered and disturbing.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 30 June 2019
• Business school instruction is routinely blinkered in this way.
  — John Benjamin, The New Republic, 14 May 2018
• By midday Monday, however, lights inside the train—limping along on battery power—dimmed and then blinkered out.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
• And some worry that the standards can blinker artistic vision and don’t want the academy meddling in creative decisions.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• But to treat issues such as affirmative action, cultural appropriation, and the like in the same way is blinkered and facile.
  — John McWhorter, National Review, 5 July 2017
• What’s more, their financial outlook remains blinkered, determined by the limitations of the tool.
  — Jeppe Rindom, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
• True poetic insight, Annabel thinks, sometimes requires blinkering your mind and ignoring your body.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• While many of us may be blinkered by our loyalty to past experience, there are those able to see—and anticipate—beyond these limitations.
  — John Vaillant, Time, 7 June 2023
• In his eyes the humanities today are static and blinkered, hamstrung by their failure to acknowledge their evolutionary roots.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• Xerox brass were further blinkered by the company’s heritage in copying rather than creating documents, Berlin adds.
  — Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• Some stars’ behavior has come across blinkered and clueless, as when Ellen DeGeneres compared staying in her palatial home to being in jail.
  — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 6 May 2020
• Flash flood warnings blinkered on and off all afternoon, and social media video showed floodwater so deep in Hallandale Beach that cars were floating.
  — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
• Despite his insight into the human psyche, demonic shrewdness, and sharp mind, Stalin was blinkered by ideology and fixed ideas.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
• Old media could be held to account for its cozy relationships, its disclosure failures, its hiring practices and its blinkered or slanted coverage — real or perceived.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2016
• But for all her father’s righteous resistance to authority, his parenting was by turns blinkered, oppressive and physically abusive.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Nonetheless, what is driving its current behavior are some deeper — and creepy — similarities to the arrogant and blinkered Old South.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2017
• The Administration was at its most blinkered in Central America and the Caribbean.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• The arts community, which the NEA both supports and is a part of, must stand together in the face of those who would erase our memories, cramp our imaginations, and blinker our vision.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2025
• The very notion of an Amazonian island—of isolation and segregation—comes off, in the light of experience, as a narrowing and blinkering background.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
• Her narrator's stories are at times contradictory, revealing how their perspectives and memories are blinkered by their own biases and experiences.
  — Kristen Martin, NPR, 11 May 2024
• But perspectives that seem blinkered at best and calculating at worst in the original series — usually attributed to these older women — become grimly legible because of their backstories.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 4 May 2023