eyeball
- eye n.
- gander n.
- glance n.
- glimpse n.
- view n.
- ascertain v.
- assay v.
- behold v.
- check v.
- distinguish v.
- eye v.
- face v.
- flirt v.
- gape v.
- gawk v.
- gaze v.
- goggle v.
- investigate v.
- leer v.
- observe v.
- ogle v.
- peer v.
- regard v.
- rubberneck v.
- scrutinize v.
- sight v.
- spy v.
- stare v.
- verify v.
- watch v.
- witness v.
Example Sentences
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"Evolutionarily speaking, you don't keep the organ that you don't need. After watching many videos, I realized this animal is moving its eyeball toward the light."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
On Wednesday morning, I walked into Channel 4's offices in central London and took a seat in a room eyeball to eyeball with its boss.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
He had seen documentaries in which robotic animals with eyeball cameras captured footage of natural habitats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
It causes the eyeball to grow longer from front to back, making it harder to focus farther away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
A small brown bottle zoomed out of the bag; he caught it and hastened back to Hermione and Ron, whose eyes were now half-closed, strips of white eyeball all that were visible between his lids.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
The researchers tested the method on 12 rabbit eyeballs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
That era of network television was heavily driven by the quest for eyeballs and ratings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The last 20 years, Marx said, have been one big “lowest-common-denominator fight for attention,” meaning it was easier than ever to remain a public figure and make money off the resulting eyeballs.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
"It felt like someone was pushing the back of my eyeballs outwards," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
She turned around and gave me that look she gives me sometimes, when her eyeballs get super big and she kind of looks like an angry bird.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
