Synonyms:
blink, eye_blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation
Meaning: a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly
Usage examples
He sat up, rubbing his eyes and blinking in the strong morning light.
"I knew there was something else," said Mrs. Sheridan, blinking over a yawn.
Again the blinking switch caught him, but he shrugged away its evil suggestiveness.
"I guess not," answered Tad, rubbing the sand from his eyes and blinking vigorously.
Meanwhile, Louis stood behind, with his hands on his sides, a smile in his blinking eyes.
So presently he climbed back on to his big green lily-pad, blinking his great, goggly eyes and looking just a wee bit foolish.
Here they lolled, blinking their hideous eyes, and doubtless conversing with one another in their sixth-sense-fourth-dimension language.
"College boys!" cried his lordship, winking and blinking, as other less majestic mortals do when awakened suddenly out of their morning sleep.
Miss Baker paused, looking at him over her shoulder, her eyes very wide open, blinking through her tears, for all the world like a frightened child.
Then, hoping to forget his woes in sleep, he nestled under the low-growing branches of the pine, and lay blinking drowsily at the twilight world outside.