Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sightless manner.
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- adverb In a
sightless manner;blindly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bouncing and rolling, the head of Ryk Kydd came to a stop and stared sightlessly back at Daun.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Bouncing and rolling, the head of Ryk Kydd came to a stop and stared sightlessly back at Daun.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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Leah lay on her back, staring sightlessly up at the canopy, fingering the stone that hung from her neck.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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So the Met's wonderful ménage-a-trois "Denial of St. Peter" (1610) was apparently painted "by a man who could barely hold a brush"; and the self-portrait included in the "Martyrdom of St. Ursula" (1599-1600) "stares sightlessly into space."
The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011
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Leah lay on her back, staring sightlessly up at the canopy, fingering the stone that hung from her neck.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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Countless broken and misshapen faces stared sightlessly down at her from their perches along marble shelves lining the four tall walls.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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His eyes stared sightlessly past her, focused on something above her.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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Cloudy brown eyes gazed sightlessly up at the heavens.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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Then it rolled onto its belly and scrabbled sightlessly across the floor like some kind of enormous, bloody worm, trying desperately to find Brynna.
Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010
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It shone brightly from behind the orb-eyed bust of an ancient Greek warrior, which stared sightlessly down from its place above a set of ornately carved double doors.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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