How to use "blinded" in a sentence

'I'm coming, Madame,' she yawned, blinded by the bright winter's sunlight that was shining into the room.

The big man cried out in surprise and pain, temporarily blinded

The chopper hugged the valley floor, streaking northward, ten feet above an ice-blocked river, still forced to make its way through a snowfall that nearly blinded them, but sheltered from the worst of the storm's turbulence by the walls of mammoth evergreens that flanked the river

But that night it was all very strange and I was physically exhausted, wet to the skin, deafened and blinded by the storm

Some water came over the side of the steamboat and blinded my brother for a moment

It had happened in this way, and I and many others did not see that it would happen because terror and disaster had blinded our minds