How to Use blind spot in a Sentence

blind spot

noun
Definition of blind spotnext
  • When driving on the highway, you need to make sure no one is in your blind spot before changing lanes.
  • She has a blind spot concerning her son's behavior.
  • Move your hand back and forth out of the blind spot, or simply take your eyes away from the lens, and the spell is broken.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
  • But Poppy, for all her live-and-let-live cheerfulness, has her blind spots too.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • But Poppy, for all her live-and-let-live cheerfulness, has her blind spots, too.
    — Justin Chang, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Young people are pushing back on the party’s missteps and its blind spots in the financial slowdown caused by the outbreak.
    — Melina Delkic, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
  • But beyond this, the book is a sharp critique of Western medicine: its blind spots, its resistance to change and its very structure.
    — Mary Hadar, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The only disappointing aspects from a driving perspective are the soft brake pedal and a massive forward blind spot.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 23 June 2020
  • So far, the Conway knot has fallen in the blind spot of every invariant mathematicians have come up with to study sliceness.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • Activate the turn signal, and a small camera mounted under one of the two side mirrors displays a picture of your car’s blind spot in the instrument cluster.
    — cleveland, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The lenses bend light in a way that creates a blind spot between them, curving light rays around a ruler, hand, or some other small object, rendering it invisible when viewed through their aperture.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
  • While discussion of Covid-19 struggles with past lessons, the uprising’s blind spot, alternatively, regards where to go next.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 10 June 2020
  • For one, this has to do with a blind spot in ICMR’s own study.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The requirement closes a blind spot in existing union financial disclosure rules that previously only covered funds over which the labor groups had exclusive control.
    — Sean Higgins, Washington Examiner, 5 Mar. 2020
  • There could be a blind spot where fine print is concerned.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Always keep other skiers in mind, and don’t stand in a blind spot.
    — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
  • This crisis has revealed a huge blind spot for many of us.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • And then that has been a blind spot that the greater Utah community has had.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • Chark hasn't been afraid to talk about mental health, which used to be a blind spot for many NFL players.
    — Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The edges light up to alert the rider of other cars approaching from blind spots.
    — Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Soon, Rozman cracked the bot’s code — Martin seemed to have a blind spot for pawns — and beat him, twice, laughing the whole time.
    — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The twist Saturday was a guard coming along the baseline, in his blind spot.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Her latest magnum opus came out of her own blind spots.
    — Ted Loos, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Your discussions with Luke have hit a brick wall because Luke has a blind spot.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2021
  • In the surveillance footage available, there is a blip of a blind spot in the angles seen, a point the defense has focused on.
    — Jonathan Mattise, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • And public health's data blind spot is poised to grow larger.
    — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Instead, by turning right across his blind spot, the cab of the flatbed struck Langenkamp and knocked her off her bike, Regan said.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The system works via the rear radar—set above the back number plate—which sends a signal to the ECU to alert the rider that a vehicle is in the blind spot.
    — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2021
  • While bosses know a lot of their main weaknesses have a critical impact on engagement, this remains a gargantuan blind spot.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 30 May 2024
  • Worrisome signs are instead blurry vision, headaches, light sensitivity, blind spots in the central vision, distorted vision and changes in color perception.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024

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