googly

Example Sentences

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“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

They also remind him of the late comic actor Marty Feldman, whose googly eyes shot off in different directions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Not long after that, they saw the first bootleg merchandise: a toy version of Mico, el Micófono, a character that is just a microphone with googly eyes that street vendors could easily replicate.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

The team experimented first with adding visual cues like googly eyes on irregular-looking eggplants, showing study participants pictures of normal or abnormal eggplants, either with or without googly eyes.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 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