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

"I trimmed down my team too as I was moving at 100mph with the blinkers on. It has taken a bit of time but now I'm here."

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

Horses are given blinkers near the outside to their eyes to help focus a horse’s attention on what’s in front of them and not what’s going on around them.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 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

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

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy