glassy-eyed
Example Sentences
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After coming out fighting on the eve of this game, declaring his fire was "burning very strongly", Howe looked glassy-eyed in his news conference following this latest defeat.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
But glassy-eyed, meaty-bodied adults of the African clawed frog, or Xenopus laevis, have none of this regeneration prowess.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022
Vinyard, who was the driver, and Amaya have told federal investigators they believed Ghaisar might have been intoxicated because he appeared glassy-eyed when they first pulled alongside him.
From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021
The next morning as we stood beside his van on the sidewalk, he studied me — glassy-eyed and sentimental — the way he did when a memory jarred loose.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2021
Grampa looked at me glassy-eyed, like he’d just come out of a dream.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
