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    Examples of eyes in a Sentence

  • Examples of eye
    1. When the changes produced by congestion are visible, as in the eye, the nostril, the mouth, the genital organs, and on the surface of the body in white or unpigmented animals, the part appears red from the increase of blood [ …]
    2. To my untutored eye all the trees looked alike.
    3. with upward eye; with upward course
    4. His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors.
    5. Keep a sharp eye on the referee during warm-up to check out his mood.
    6. Pippin never forgot that hour in the great hall under the piercing eye of the Lord of Gondor, stabbed ever and anon by his shrewd questions
  • Examples of eyes
    1. "The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state." -Richard Owen.
    2. Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied.
    3. She said nothing and simply stared at him, eyes aflame.
    4. Cotton Mather came galloping down All the way to Newbury town, With his eyes agog and his ears set wide, And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;
    5. He was all eyes for her.
    6. aphakial eyes
    7. While appearing to listen to Adelaide, her eyes wandered over me with speculation askant in them.
    8. Eyes asquint, he saw she was driving much too fast.
    9. Eyes atwinkle at age 71, he boasts skills rare in the Republican Party for waging guerrilla war with help from the news media.
    10. The poor patient knew at once his master's tongue, and lifting up one of his eyes, the other being stiff and barkened down said in a melancholy voice, "Ah, master, do you think I'll get better?"
  • Examples of eyen
    1. So mote I brouke wel myne eyen tweye, Saue ye I herde neuere man so synge. — Chaucer, 1390 While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen. — Spenser, The Fairie Queen 1897, William Morris, “Chapter VII. Birdalone Hath an Adventure in the Wood”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles, Fantasy, Project Gutenberg, published 2005 : But well are thine eyen set in thy head, wide apart, well opened, ...
    2. Examples: aurochs, aurochsen[1]; bee, been; brother, brethren[1]; child, children[1]; cow, kine; knee, kneen; eye, eyen; hose, hosen; house, housen; ox, oxen[1]; shoe, shoon; sister, sistren; tree, treen, swine
  • Examples of eyed
    1. He exits quickly, looking like he's just seen the one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater. "Some gooks are in there!"
    2. At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.
    3. In his new animated film, Jerry Seinfeld plays Barry B. Benson, a wisecracking, moony-eyed, charmingly petulant New York honeybee who doesn't want to spend his days as a worker bee stuck on the honeymaking assembly line.
    4. 1922, In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his black trousers, the ends, the knees, the houghs of the knees. — James Joyce, Ulysses
    5. I have now put 7 dragons on them, complete with a kajillion tiny scales ... I'm permanently cross-eyed from drawing a kajillion little scales ... and KNOTWORK ... there is a kajillion little lines crossing over and under and over and under . ...
    6. The game is seven card stud. After the queen, one-eyed jacks and low card in the hole are wild.
    7. Shaun: What, "lanky four-eyed twat"?
    8. Shaun: "Weirdo goggle-eyed gimp"?
    9. The tagliatelli with pheasant ragout, rich and pungent, or grilled salmon with black-eyed peas can round out your night.
    10. The tarkhan, leader of the Khazar army, meets Amram, Zelikman and a green-eyed young person who claims to be Alp, the brother of Filaq.
  • Examples of eyeing
    1. That stunod customer thinks Trent was eyeing his secretary.
    2. she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself,  [ …] .
    3. After eyeing the document for an hour she decided not to sign it.
    4. The Mister loved to be teased. He frequently asked for it by lying down and fanning the floor with his tail whilst eyeing you invitingly. We used to tease him about his black nose: called him "nigger nose".
    5. That creep in the corner was eyeing me up
    6. The dog was eyeing up my steak
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  3. en eyeslit
  4. en eyesful
  5. en eyespot
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