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blinking

adjective B1
  1. That blinks. · a blinking light
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The latter was blinking in the bright light of the corridor, and peering at us and at the smouldering fire.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 62 · C1
The man stood blinking at us with the dazed look of one who comes from the dark into the light.
The Valley of Fear, p. 92 · C1
She appeared to be dazzled by the sudden blaze of light, and after dropping a curtsey, she stood blinking at us with her bleared eyes and fumbling in her pocket with nervous, shaky fingers.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 50 · B2
Blinking embers, tell me true
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 18 · C1

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