cyclopean

Example Sentences

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"It's mind-boggling that our pineal gland's ability to regulate our sleep according to light stems from the cyclopean median eye of a distant ancestor 600 million years ago," concludes Dan-E Nilsson.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

“They are like apotropaic amulets warding off the evil eye: an army of ever-watchful, unblinking, cyclopean eyes,” wrote critic Zoé Samudzi in a short monograph of William’s work published in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023

Despite his bioweapons plot, clever name, and cyclopean henchman, Rami Malek’s masked villain Lyutsifer Safin comes across as a middling throwback.

From Washington Times • Oct. 11, 2021

Each of these cars radiates that same sense of possession, of intimacy with the night and the cyclopean metropolis.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2016

The sun at this hour shone as far, as deep, as mercilessly into the room as the television set, striking it squarely in its unblinking cyclopean eye.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger