eye
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“You keep one eye on the clock—your time is running out before it begins. You’re obsessed with your body and what other people think of your body—how it compares to some eighteen-year-old’s.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
"On Saturday, in some major cities, you couldn't look shopkeepers in the eye after hundreds of shops had been looted and tell them we hadn't lost control," Nunez said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
“So we can’t rule that out ... We’re going to be keeping a close eye on the storm system.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
Wearing a royal blue jumper with a red collar, the musician then urged fans to keep an eye out for and support each other.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
“Every second,” he replied, tears pricking his one good eye.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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He was going to visit around town for a while, might eyen take a look at Abraham Lincoln's tomb, while Stevenson made up his mind about tidelands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A hugye giaunt stiffe and starke, All foule of limbe and lere; Two goggling eyen like fire farden, A mouthe from eare to eare.
From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Sutherland Menzies
No medicine of thee, O Luke, I seek, Though thou art a physician, and I sick: Th' example of thy faith before my eyen, To me, physician, is the medicine.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
Maybe you are somewhat like as yet unto him whose eyen Christ touched, that at first he could not tell betwixt men and trees.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
O woe for the well-watched Signy, how often on that day Must she send her helpless eyen adown the woodland way!
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris
“I would literally open my eyes and be like, did I tell anyone?” says Sloan, who co-wrote the song “What’s Wrong With Me,” with Rodrigo and the singer’s longtime producer, Daniel Nigro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
“What you see with your eyes, you will not believe!”
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Meanwhile, all eyes were on a different player as the traitors' possible new recruit.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Our two eyes observe the world from slightly different positions, helping the brain distinguish nearby objects from those farther away.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Candace gazes lovingly into Dad’s eyes and gently squeezes his hand.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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I smiled upon her with my bonniest, blithest eyne.
From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland
Alas, that ever with mine eyne I should see this sight!
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
He feels from Juda's land The dreaded Infant's hand, The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne: Nor all the gods beside Dare longer there abide, Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
Range the brown hair, it blinds her eyne, Dash cold water over her face!
From Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt
He is slye and wittie, and seeth so sharpely that he overcommeth darknes of the nighte by the shyninge lyghte of his eyne.
From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Harrison Weir
It centered on South Carolina, one of the states Navatek eyed for a rapid expansion.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
To my right, a black bear cub eyed me curiously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Her 5-year-old son, Zaden, played nearby as her Boston terriers, Kylo and Dozer, eyed a stranger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Penelope felt she might even grow misty eyed to be reunited with her much-loved and much-missed teacher and friend.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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Taylor Farms maintained that its own branded salad kits were unaffected, a distinction that mattered scientifically, if not necessarily psychologically, to shoppers eyeing the refrigerated wall of greens.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
A $135,000 apartment he had been eyeing in 2019 was taken off the market during the early part of the pandemic, then relisted and eventually sold for $305,000.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Markets will be eyeing the key U.S. nonfarm payrolls report at 1230 GMT for clues on whether a U.S. rate rise later this month remains possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The furore has not deterred other companies from eyeing the market, however.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Chandresh asks, eyeing it with a certain amount of trepidation.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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He told AFP that VW was eying other Asian countries and South America as places that might be receptive to its China-developed offerings.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
The company is eying a potentially blockbuster initial public offering that could draw more attention to the space sector.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 20, 2026
General Catalyst is eying call centers and rental companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Labubu maker Pop Mart has doubled its profits in the last year and is eying up global expansion in 2025.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025
Mother was eying the boat, the canned goods, and perhaps the whole of our future.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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