eyeball
- eye n.
- gander n.
- glance n.
- glimpse n.
- view n.
- ascertain v.
- assay v.
- behold v.
- check v.
- distinguish v.
- eye v.
- face v.
- flirt v.
- gape v.
- gawk v.
- gaze v.
- goggle v.
- investigate v.
- leer v.
- observe v.
- ogle v.
- peer v.
- regard v.
- rubberneck v.
- scrutinize v.
- sight v.
- spy v.
- stare v.
- verify v.
- watch v.
- witness v.
Example Sentences
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I got the hairy eyeball from fellow TV panelists when I said in 2019 that it was careless of the French to let Notre-Dame burn down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
When you open them there needs to be a pleat, so when you close them there is enough skin to cover the eyeball.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
"I opened the package, and there was a giant, 200-year-old eyeball sitting on dry ice just staring back at me," the 28-year-old says with a laugh.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Their snobbery is juxtaposed with Carney’s friend and colleague Pepper’s unsettling bluntness and eyeball to eyeball stare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
She calls it our eyeball journal because Ralph Waldo Emerson—the person our school is named for—once said he wanted to be an eyeball.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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“It’s just following where we know the eyeballs are.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Kirkham concludes: "It is a global point - that means more audience and more eyeballs, and that means more money around the world."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The last 20 years, Marx said, have been one big “lowest-common-denominator fight for attention,” meaning it was easier than ever to remain a public figure and make money off the resulting eyeballs.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Their cloudy-looking eyes can appear almost lifeless, and parasites are often found attached directly to the eyeballs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
“This is fine. It’s a nice rest for my eyeballs anyway. I mean, they’re always on, you know?”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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