unseeing

Example Sentences

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Daniel, with his unseeing yet piercing gaze, turns out to be the conscience of this story, which doesn’t mean that he, his memories or his eventual testimony can be entirely trusted.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023

Trym stirred, blinked, and watched them for a while, unseeing.

From Slate • Dec. 24, 2022

It poised, tensed, on the landscape of shelterless rocks, While there, close beside, the still unseeing fox Was only a hare’s-breath away.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022

Few characters in ballet make as lasting an impression as the Sleepwalker, an enigmatic character with long, flowing hair who makes her unseeing entrance on point, holding a candle.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2017

Lenina did not move, but sat with her face in her hands, unseeing, apart.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley