blink of an eye

Example Sentences

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With his foot to the floor, Rosenqvist edged his car in front and took the checkered flag by just 0.02 seconds, barely the blink of an eye.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

"It was done in the blink of an eye… I don't think we had another gig for a couple of months, I didn't really know where it was going to go from there."

From BBC • May 16, 2026

V1298 Tau is remarkably young by astronomical standards, at just about 20 million years old -- a blink of an eye compared to the Sun's 4.5-billion-year history.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026

The spun-off Sandisk has only been around for the blink of an eye.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Just as wormholes can, in theory, send you halfway across the universe in the blink of an eye, they can send you backward and forward in time.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife