eyeful

Example Sentences

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Once the sponsors got an eyeful, they ordered the mural painted over.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024

The next day, drive back the way you came, to give passengers an eyeful along the route — and see everything you missed the day before.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022

To get a feeling for how modern-day Iranians celebrate, just search the hashtag "Yaldanight" on Instagram and you'll get an eyeful of scarlet-clad people posing in candlelit tableaux, watermelon-painted fingernails, and small children holding pomegranates.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2021

And Nivola — a Boston-born Yale man who spent his grade-school years mostly in rural Vermont and high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire — was an eyeful.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2021

Ophie said nothing, and the other passengers stumbled and lurched back to their seats after getting their eyeful of the tragedy on the street.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland