blind date
noun
1
: a date between two persons who have not previously met
2
: either participant in a blind date
Examples of blind date in a Sentence
She went out on a blind date with her friend's cousin.
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Fifteen years prior, the couple met on a blind date at a karaoke bar in 2002.
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Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 16 May 2025
As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Born April 28, 1942, in New York, Elaine Pascal was raised in Miami and first met Steve Wynn on a blind date in 1961.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025
Marcus Freiberger, 45, went missing after he was reportedly scheduled to go on a blind date in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, on Feb. 21.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2025
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Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 16 May 2025
As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Born April 28, 1942, in New York, Elaine Pascal was raised in Miami and first met Steve Wynn on a blind date in 1961.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025
Marcus Freiberger, 45, went missing after he was reportedly scheduled to go on a blind date in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, on Feb. 21.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for blind date
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“Blind date.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blind%20date. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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