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
Writer Greg Stolze posted a while back about “some professor” who “put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying ‘Hi!
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
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
An Australian teenager has faced court for allegedly defacing a large blue sculpture of a mythical creature by sticking googly eyes on it.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
“I can’t believe you brought me here just so you can make googly eyes at your boyfriend,” Imani says.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
Ahmed grew in confidence, bounding in, landing dipping leg-breaks and dangerous googlies.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2022
He was bowling googlies, flippers and sliders before the age of 10.
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
Where until recently the Emerald Isle's saloons echoed to vociferous debate about economic downturns, the recent general election and mass emigration, the talk now is almost exclusively of right-arm spin, leg-breaks and googlies.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2011
He knew now that he couldn't bowl googlies at all: on the house pitches it depended on the lie of the land which way the ball broke.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
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