BLINDFOLD in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for BLINDFOLD, such as:

1. Imagine a blindfolded man set to drive a van over a bad road.
2. A mother recognises the feel of her child's skin when blindfolded.
3. His abductors blindfolded him and drove him to a flat in southern Beirut.
4. But the swords were drawn back from him and he was at once blindfolded again.
5. If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

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blindfold
 n.  a piece of cloth tied around the head to cover someone's eyes
Classic Sentence:
1  Tom slipped out in good season with his aunt's old tin lantern, and a large towel to blindfold it with.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  The general's carriage was ready, but the president told him it was impossible for him to use it, since it was useless to blindfold the master if the coachman knew through what streets he went.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 75. A Signed Statement.
3  If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
4  The next-door girls put some saucers on the table and then led the children up to the table, blindfold.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In CLAY
5  Our body is like a perfect watch that should go for a certain time; the watchmaker cannot open it, he can only adjust it by fumbling, and that blindfold.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIX
6  , "here's the blindfold and here are the scales."
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
7  Then I noticed a small sketch in oils, on a panel, representing a woman, draped and blindfolded, carrying a lighted torch.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
8  Imagine a blindfolded man set to drive a van over a bad road.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
9  But the swords were drawn back from him and he was at once blindfolded again.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV
10  With hurried hands the soldiers blindfolded them, drawing the sacks over their heads, and bound them to the post.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XI
11  Franz went in with his eyes blindfolded, and was waited on by mutes and by women to whom Cleopatra was a painted strumpet.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
12  There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Example Sentence:
1  A mother recognises the feel of her child's skin when blindfolded.
2  His abductors blindfolded him and drove him to a flat in southern Beirut.