glass eye
Example Sentences
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“Equipped with a prosthesis simulating a glass eye over his pupil,” we are told, Mr. Day-Lewis “practiced hitting it with the tip of his knife without batting an eyelid.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
"It's all here," said our colleague, holding up the money to show to a bearded man with a glass eye.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025
By then, Yukov had a new glass eye, which looks incredibly real until he raps on it with his knuckles.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2024
His father had worn a glass eye since a terrible accident when he was 10, and his mother, Beatrice, had worked at Harper’s Bazaar magazine alongside Diana Vreeland and an upstart Andy Warhol.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022
Perhaps, I thought, the whole thing should roll off me like drops of water rolling off Jack's glass eye.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
