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

Our bodies are paralyzed during REM sleep, except our unseeing eyes, which still flit around behind sealed lids, like captive butterflies.

From Slate • May 28, 2018

She held her breath in the darkness, and the party passed unseeing.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2017

Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson