eye opener

Example Sentences

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“Everything is quite low-rise where I grew up, and coming to New York was a real eye-opener, with the tall buildings and all that,” she said in a phone interview.

From Seattle Times

“I realized that I was gonna die in prison. And that’s a kick in the gut. But it’s also an eye-opener,” he said.

From Seattle Times

He said the pandemic was “a real eye-opener for tribes” as officials consider their tribes’ futures in the gambling business.

From Seattle Times

In Gambia, as in many countries across Africa, the pandemic was “very difficult” for many health systems but it was “an eye-opener for all of us to know where the gaps have been,” said Ahmadou Lamin Samateh, Gambia’s minister of health.

From Seattle Times

Todd said the banner flown by the plane over the football stadium “should have been an eye-opener for a lot of people that we’re in the Deep South” and the monuments in Jacksonville and other cities went up across the South during the era of Jim Crow segregation.

From Washington Times