blinkers

Example Sentences

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But even he has blinkers on: Yes, 1975 might have been a great, great time in New York, despite garbage strikes, crime rates and municipal bankruptcy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

In June last year, a Chinese navy vessel flashed blue lights and blinkers at a Philippine coastguard tugboat, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2023

Your concern, as your friend doesn’t grasp, is not just for those wrongs but for the moral blinkers — the defects of character or culture — that prevent this man from seeing the wrong.

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

To dismiss any role for biological factors is to don a different set of blinkers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2022

Things that had been out of bounds so far, obscured by history’s blinkers.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy