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eyeblink

n. 1 An act of blinking one's eyelids one time. 2 A moment; a very short period of time.

Usage examples of "eyeblink".

He concentrated on his weariness, on how physically miserable he was feeling, and spent not so much as an eyeblink on his real intentions.

Kethry was at it in an eyeblink, clawing at it in frustration, for there was no handle on this side.

Within an eyeblink she had roused herself to a killing battle-frenzy, a state in which all her senses were heightened, her reactions quickened, her strength nearly doubled.

A minion of the god had been killed nearly one mortal year ago, but an eyeblink to the god.

For an eyeblink, the mage saw all three standing frozen, as if unharmed.

Ingrams pressing against the sides of my chest only an eyeblink away if I chose to go for them.

In an eyeblink, a ship appeared on the flatscreen, already well within scanning range.

In an eyeblink we were back in the city-map Matrix for Seattle, and the third floor of the Fujiwara tower exploded.

Let the tiniest ripple mar the glittering surface of the festivities and they were present in an eyeblink to smooth it out.

Not only had Rothberg flipped his hands to catch the coins with eyeblink speed.

With eyeblink speed, Grisman did something with his elbows as he walked inside.

Nobody wants to fund grants to study the eyeblink reflex in decorticate lobsters.

Only the ropes touched it, and where they did, they seemed to writhe of themselves, changing in an eyeblink from brown hemp to green scales to branches to iridescent fur.

Good heavens, one medium- sized car bomb would drop the mean planetary IQ twenty points in an eyeblink.

One threat after another had materialized out of a galaxy which the conventional wisdom had never expected to hold so many species at essentially the same technological level in the same cosmological eyeblink of time.