blink

Object

• cursor: You will notice how the blinking cursor is set at the end of the length of text that you typed in.
• tear: Each time we blink the tears are spread onto the front of the eye.
• eye: A European shop would have done so without blinking an eye.
• light: Up for the the blinking lights through its wholly.
• text: I've seen too many messages written in red Comics Sans with blinking text and garish graphics.

Adjective modifier

attentional: Furthermore, they suggest that the attentional blink disrupts a wide range of processes in the visual system.

Modifies a noun

tag: Moreover, much of this relates to features like the disgusting blink tag, which should never appear on any civilized Web document.

Modifying Another Word

• twice: The Nodder's eyes pop back open, again blink twice.
• slowly: Bright and blinking slowly, With them you watch the world go by.
• rapidly: She blinks rapidly trying to shield her eyes from the spray.
• once: I'm really not sure that he actually blinks once during the entire movie, that's how crazy bonkers he is.
• again: The Nodder's eyes pop back open, again blink twice.
• even: Laugh your head off, maybe even blink back a tear.

Followed by an intransitive particle

on: One of the lights was red, and blinked on and off.

Used with why or when

when: This is usually because we unconsciously blink less when we are doing anything that needs lots of visual attention.

Preposition: in

sunlight: A Little Owl was found blinking in the bright sunlight reflected off a sprinkling of snow.

Preposition: of

• eyelid: How have we managed to allow parents to shift the emphasis of responsibility for their children onto schools with the blink of an eyelid?
• eye: Only takes a second, blink of an eye for someone to steal a kid.

Noun used with modifier

eye: Two dancing eyes blink through a black, velvet mask beneath the brim of a fine top hat.