lay eyes on

Example Sentences

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Once they lay eyes on me, to know me is to love me.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Strong words from someone I had never met and would more than likely never lay eyes on again.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024

Of the hundreds of souls that gathered here in Lower Manhattan, only a few dozen journalists, police officers and lawyers would even lay eyes on the man they had come to see.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2023

But today, the residents largely remember her arrival as a moving gesture of solidarity from someone they never expected to lay eyes on.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2022

My mother went over to school to personally lay eyes on the kid, wanting to assess what kind of threat he posed.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama