blinking light

Example Sentences

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When she got home from a movie with friends, Rebecca Hayter noticed a blinking light on her answering machine.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

In the original series, Pike was introduced as a disfigured character kept alive inside by a boxy apparatus through which he could communicate with a blinking light.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2023

Then he saw the blinking light on the answering machine.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021

But coming as they did in rapid succession — and with the imprimatur of the decennial census on the slowing population growth — the numbers amounted to a blinking light about the path ahead.

From Washington Post • May 9, 2021

We slow down so our footsteps aren’t as loud, and I look for the blinking light again.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth