cyclopean
Example Sentences
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"It's mind-boggling that our pineal gland's ability to regulate our sleep according to light stems from the cyclopean median eye of a distant ancestor 600 million years ago," concludes Dan-E Nilsson.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026
“They are like apotropaic amulets warding off the evil eye: an army of ever-watchful, unblinking, cyclopean eyes,” wrote critic Zoé Samudzi in a short monograph of William’s work published in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
Despite his bioweapons plot, clever name, and cyclopean henchman, Rami Malek’s masked villain Lyutsifer Safin comes across as a middling throwback.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
Each of these cars radiates that same sense of possession, of intimacy with the night and the cyclopean metropolis.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2016
The muscles in her right eye have been weak since she was a child, and every so often the eye drifts to one side, giving her a vaguely cyclopean air.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
