eye opener

Example Sentences

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"You could say that the eye muscles function as both an eye-opener for understanding the disease and as a door opener to a treatment for the whole body," says Fatima Pedrosa Domellöf, professor of eye diseases at Umeå University and one of the study's authors.

From Science Daily

They are still suspect in the secondary, but Ahkello Witherspoon has been a bit of an eye-opener and John Johnson III has proven to be another great veteran-minimum signing.

From Los Angeles Times

"I think it'll be quite an eye-opener because a lot of these places will be in the middle of nowhere, so you'll get to see, I suppose, the real United States as opposed to the Hollywood version," he said.

From BBC

“Everyone that I knew got their animals out, but it was definitely an eye-opener that we were not super prepared,” said Friedrich, president of Yorba Linda Country Riders.

From Los Angeles Times

“That was an eye-opener, even for me.”

From New York Times