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eye

[ahy] / aɪ /


NOUN
optical organ of an animate being
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The lie-flat bed was comfortable, but I only slept a couple hours max since it wasn’t a red eye.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

An optometrist turned billionaire philanthropist with an eye for bold design paid a record-setting $40 million for a bespoke Ferrari Luce at auction.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Cleverly, whose Braintree constituency saw a caravan site built over a weekend in May allegedly without permission, accused Labour ministers of "turning a blind eye" to the issue.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

A medical board including an eye specialist and experts in internal medicine and cardiology would be established for Khan's treatment, the order said.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

But soon after, he’d seen his reflection in a glassy pond, his left eye socket gaping grotesquely above his snarled whiskers.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

He was going to visit around town for a while, might eyen take a look at Abraham Lincoln's tomb, while Stevenson made up his mind about tidelands.

From Time Magazine Archive

She set alight to the bower aloft And it burned up speedily, And her good love and her great heart Might all with eyen see.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris

Straightwaie closynge mine eyen to gette a cleare vision of ye same, I am minded of deare friendes whose feete have kept time with mine along ye shaded wayes.

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

A hugye giaunt stiffe and starke, All foule of limbe and lere; Two goggling eyen like fire farden, A mouthe from eare to eare.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Sutherland Menzies

No medicine of thee, O Luke, I seek, Though thou art a physician, and I sick: Th' example of thy faith before my eyen, To me, physician, is the medicine.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

To keep catching consumers’ eyes, Conagra is running word-association research studies to find what words and phrases best draw attention without sounding too clinical, like “good source of fiber” and “high in protein.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Lu, who has protuberant light brown eyes, small black ears and a floppy tongue, loves to snuggle with her four-legged foster siblings and stretch out in the sun, according to the contest website.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

In some cases, those experiences can contribute to a fear of failure rooted in the belief that mistakes make a person less worthy in the eyes of others.

From Science Daily Aug. 18, 2026

In Fiona's eyes it was "really bad luck".

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Ma’s eyes are falsely bright, her smile strained.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

This said, adowne he looked to the ground, 600 To have returnd, but dazed were his eyne Through passing brightnesse, which did quite confound His feeble sence and too exceeding shyne.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

From his eyne did the glamour of Faerie pass And the Rymour lay on Eildon grass.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell

His eyne were like two coals of fire as he called to us in a loud voice.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

He rent the sheet upon her face,115 A little aboon her chin; With lily white cheek, and lemin' eyne, She lookt and laugh'd to him.

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Range the brown hair, it blinds her eyne, Dash cold water over her face!

From Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

One project the company has eyed up would involve boring tunnels for an underground freight-distribution system around airports and warehouses.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

When Díaz underwent the procedure to remove loose bodies from his elbow in late April, the Dodgers eyed a post-All-Star break return.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2026

Over half of U.S. companies are losing sales due to policy restrictions; new U.S. tariffs are expected, with Xi’s September visit eyed for clarity.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

Global stocks gained and oil prices retreated as investors eyed a potential deal between the U.S. and Iran that could open the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal May 25, 2026

But he eyed me severely,—as if I had done anything to him!—and departed with the words reproachfully delivered: “Boy! Let your behaviour here be a credit unto them which brought you up by hand!”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

For the restaurant’s next venture, he said he’s eyeing Australia, Singapore and Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

McGurn said the company is in “active” conversations with other potential customers, such as artificial-intelligence hyperscalers, and is eyeing an eventual push toward retail traders.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Fire had been eyeing Lewandowski for a decade, believing they could convince him to come to America, especially with the large Polish community in Chicago.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

With summer in full swing, affluent buyers with cash to burn may be eyeing second homes.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

“I wouldn’t go in there,” Max says, eyeing the door.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

He told AFP that VW was eying other Asian countries and South America as places that might be receptive to its China-developed offerings.

From Barron's Apr. 27, 2026

The company is eying a potentially blockbuster initial public offering that could draw more attention to the space sector.

From MarketWatch Apr. 20, 2026

General Catalyst is eying call centers and rental companies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 11, 2026

Voters from more than 100 countries followed the action at Katmai's Brooks River through live web streams, where bears can be seen scooping up salmon and eying up their competition.

From BBC Oct. 1, 2025

“But,” he added, eying the herring, “I will not allow that scaly seathing under any roof of mine. Fishes are far too fishy for me.”

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers




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