BLUR in a Sentence

Learn BLUR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

70 example sentences for BLUR, such as:

1. Her eyes were a blur from weeping.
2. The town was just a blur on the horizon.
3. The object was a dim blur in the moonlight.
4. Fiction and reality were increasingly blurred.
5. She suffered from dizziness and blurred vision.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLUR
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blur
 n.  something that is hazy and indistinct to the sight or mind; dim, confused appearance; moral stain or blot
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  Through the blur, she saw the men moving toward the doorway, heard the sergeant calling commands in a loud rough voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  The two measured each other for a moment, but Lily still saw her opponent through a blur of scorn that made all other considerations indistinct.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
3  It was pain enough even to think of him, whether she considered him in the distinctness of her waking thoughts, or felt the obsession of his presence through the blur of her tormented nights.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  Her eyes were a blur from weeping.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  In his haste his eyes almost closed, and the scene was a wild blur.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
6  Presently some chance whim came to the pestering blur, and it began to coil heavily away.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
7  There were the two towers of Baskerville Hall, and there a distant blur of smoke which marked the village of Grimpen.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
8  I could see the blur of their craft, but they were going nearly as fast as I, and they must have been a long mile from the shore before I caught them up.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
9  As we looked, we saw a dark blur moving across the blind.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
10  The turnpike lamp was a blur, quite out of the lamp's usual place apparently, and its rays looked solid substance on the fog.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV
11  Somehow her exquisite shape reminded him of an ivory toy, in such fair, white, transparent relief did it stand out against the dull blur of the surrounding throng.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
12  Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  Charles' words blurred the voices she strained to hear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  But the memory was blurred, blurred by the sudden feeling of irritation that memory of him always brought to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  It was an oddly familiar noise, blurred and indistinct though it was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  His arm was a rapid blur of movement as he struck.
2  The town was just a blur on the horizon.
3  If I don't wear my glasses, everything is just a blur.
4  Out of the corner of my eye I saw a blur of movement on the other side of the glass.
5  The object was a dim blur in the moonlight.
6  Everything is a blur when I take my glasses off.
7  The blur is a visible condensation cloud that often occurs close to the speed of the sound barrier.
8  He so worked upon his feelings with the pathos of these dreams, that he had to keep swallowing, he was so like to choke; and his eyes swam in a blur of water, which overflowed when he winked, and ran down and trickled from the end of his nose.
9  Without her glasses, Gretchen saw the fields of tulips as a variegated blur.
10  The sharp outline of the island had become blurred.
11  She suffered from dizziness and blurred vision.
12  The markings are so blurred that it is difficult to identify.
13  Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
14  Fiction and reality were increasingly blurred.
15  This film blurs the line/distinction/boundary between reality and fantasy.