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

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

In other words, spiders toss, turn, and avert their unseeing gaze, much as humans do during their dreams.

From Washington Times • Aug. 9, 2022

Sea horses gazed at me from dried, unseeing eye sockets, their snoutlike mouths frozen in a macabre O! of surprise.

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2018

After confusion I can go into the Prado in Madrid and pass unseeing the thousand pictures shout-ing for my attention and I can visit a friend—a not large Greco, San Pablo con un Libro.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck