googly
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Wearing a handmade sock puppet with large googly eyes she found at Walmart, Esquivel read “Snuggle Puppy!” in a high-pitched voice as her teenage daughter recorded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Kurata also did the ensembles for the Oscar-nominated “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with its wardrobe of googly eyes and Elvis jumpsuits.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
“We didn’t want googly eyes on the robot, nothing like that. So it did kind of surprise us when people seemed to feel very nurturing towards their robots.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
Shakeel eventually miscued Atkinson to mid-wicket before last man Zahid Mahmood was befuddled by an Ahmed googly.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
“One minute, you’re on a date with Ell, and the next you’re over here making googly eyes at this lothario!”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Ahmed grew in confidence, bounding in, landing dipping leg-breaks and dangerous googlies.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2022
He walked two paces then scurried to the crease, unleashing flat leg-breaks and devilish googlies.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2022
Hafeez, whose first innings of the series ended on 98, sees it out without scoring, and is troubled by a couple of googlies.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2015
Sky subscriptions may be buoyant and ITV may have clambered out of the ditch, but it is not for nothing that media execs mutter about a certain tech giant bowling them googlies.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2011
Ultimately, he fixed upon the bowling of googlies.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
