glassy-eyed
Example Sentences
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It’s the same species that transformed Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum into giddy, glassy-eyed children, only now drained of all majesty.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025
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
The little one was staring glassy-eyed into space, the way Akira sometimes stared.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
