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Example sentences for "unseeing"

Lexicographically close words:
unseating; unseaworthiness; unseaworthy; unsectarian; unsecured; unseeingly; unseemliness; unseemly; unseen; unsegmented
  1. He was thinking very wearily of all these things as he sat on the fallen tree trunk in the garden and stared unseeing across tangled ranks of roses.

  2. He halted before one of the front windows, and his eyes gazed unseeing across the street into the green shrubbery of the Luxembourg Gardens.

  3. For a long time Jotan sat there staring with unseeing eyes at the sluggishly moving waters of the tiny river.

  4. For a long time he stood there on the small balcony, staring out over Ammad with unseeing eyes.

  5. She turned, gazing at the woman with staring, unseeing eyes.

  6. She tried to give her eyes a vacant, unseeing expression, and fearlessly approached the door.

  7. Elma lay with unseeing eyes staring at him.

  8. Elma in an honourable manner felt that probably she might be giving away Mabel to an unseeing parent.

  9. There were women who sat in the windows for hours together, gazing out with unseeing eyes; other women who stood in the doors and talked.

  10. He went to his room and sat, staring unseeing at the five privet bushes and the old bicycle shed.

  11. So we sped on through the dark, these two maids and I, unseeing and unseen, speaking little by reason of our haste.

  12. She dined alone, a rather forlorn little figure in the big dining-room; and after her hurried meal she went into the drawing-room and stood looking out over the lawn with unseeing eyes.

  13. He stared out of the window with unseeing eyes.

  14. Then, disregarding the implorings of Carew and Paddy, who were terrified at the steady, unseeing look in his gray eyes and at the tense lines about his lips, he went to his captain and demanded his old position of regimental rough rider.

  15. In her room, where a bright fire was burning, and letters from the girls lay on the table, she sat down in her wraps and gazed with unseeing eyes at the flames.

  16. A dark flush rose to Oliver's forehead, and turning away, he stared with unseeing eyes out of the window.

  17. And he was sufficiently accustomed to sheep-like and unseeing visitors, to be intrigued by one who did not hesitate to say of Mauve: "Good old haystacks!

  18. He walked quickly, very upright; there was something unseeing even about that back view of him; or was it that he saw-another world?

  19. Adrian sat with a face that looked old and lined and grey; with haggard unseeing eyes gazing forth into space as though fixing some invisible and spectre show.

  20. Slowly he moved away, leaving Rupert motionless in his seat; and long did the younger brother remain moodily fixing the purple bloom of the grapes with unseeing eyes.

  21. But she looked at him with a distraught, unseeing eye, and pulled at the collar of her dress as if she were choking.

  22. But five of our comrades would see no earthly day again; and three dozen strong men of the day before lay stretched upon the ground, pulseless and shrunken and purple, with wrinkled skin and wide, unseeing eyes.

  23. Four days later Little Blue Flower came to me as I, still numb and cold and blankly unthinking, sat beside Fort Marcy and looked out with unseeing eyes at the glory of a New-Mexican sunset.

  24. For inertia has its dangers as grave as those of unseeing passion.

  25. Even so, it is the unseeing popular passion that furnishes the capitalist with his arm, and is the factor of greatest danger.

  26. He stood there quite still, watching his movements with unseeing eyes.

  27. He too had rolled on to his back--he too was gazing up with unseeing eyes at the dark-hued carrion whose patience was inexhaustible.

  28. Nothing more she had heard or known--nothing to this day, when she had seen his daughter pass her by unseeing in the beech hollow.

  29. She would sit for hours in her rocking chair with the gray kitten in her lap, looking out of the window with dreamy, unseeing eyes.

  30. She saw him mount into the darkness, unseeing and unchanging.

  31. Joey seemed to watch all the time with wide anxious, unseeing eye, brilliant and inscrutable.

  32. That is very well,” he said, with a recurrence to his unseeing stare and dreamy tone, “because for me you really are not here.

  33. Rosina went back to the window and her unseeing contemplation of the outdoors.

  34. Dave saw that she had forgotten his presence; she stood there in the gathering night with wild, unseeing eyes.

  35. Philip stood motionless, his unseeing eyes staring straight through the log walls and the black night to a city a thousand miles away.

  36. The dry birch burst into flame, and for half an hour he sat staring into it with almost unseeing eyes.

  37. Father Vassily stopped in front of his wife, regarding her with unseeing eyes and said: "It is dark.

  38. And he trembled, unseeing like a blind man, but on the point of receiving sight.

  39. There was no yellow-brown plume from the furnace chimney, and the very windows of the old house with the mansard roof had in their stare the glazed, unseeing expression of eyes in which there is death.

  40. Jim felt no resentment for the neglect of his proffered hand, but the long stare of those sick, unseeing eyes made him uneasy.

  41. That One unseen by unseeing eyes became real to him and then more real.

  42. He endured as seeing Him who was invisible to the unseeing eyes of the crowds at His side.

  43. Through these I wandered at last on to the terrace, and rested my arms on the low balustrade, looking with unseeing eyes across the lawn, with its tropical trees standing motionless in the golden haze.

  44. I looked through the shining, quivering sunlight that fell on every side with blank, unseeing eyes, and the bitterest curses against Howard rose to my lips, checked only by the knowledge that I had forgiven him.

  45. She was staring straight ahead with what is mistakenly called an unseeing look, but which actually pierces the veil of years and beholds things far, far beyond the vision of the actual eye.

  46. Alderman Mooney had taken his pipe out of his mouth and was rubbing his thumb over the smooth bowl, looking down at it with unseeing eyes.

  47. He stood staring at the instrument with unseeing eyes.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unseeing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    asleep; benighted; blind; dark; impolitic; imprudent; inadvisable; inconsiderate; indiscreet; inexpedient; injudicious; insensate; insensible; irrational; mindless; misguided; napping; rayless; reasonless; reckless; senseless; shortsighted; sightless; thoughtless; unadvised; unaware; unconscious; unconsidered; undiscerning; unenlightened; unknowing; unmindful; unobserving; unreasonable; unreflecting; unseeing; unsound; unsuspecting; unthinking; unwise; unwitting; witless