glassy-eyed
Example Sentences
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After coming out fighting on the eve of this game, declaring his fire was "burning very strongly", Howe looked glassy-eyed in his news conference following this latest defeat.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
But glassy-eyed, meaty-bodied adults of the African clawed frog, or Xenopus laevis, have none of this regeneration prowess.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022
Their expressions were glassy-eyed and weary, their limbs weak, their blood sugar so low they could not stand without feeling faint.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021
The next morning as we stood beside his van on the sidewalk, he studied me — glassy-eyed and sentimental — the way he did when a memory jarred loose.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2021
It stood well back from the rattle and bustle of Marlborough Street, with its glassy-eyed copper Indian on top of the cupola and its carved and colored lion and unicorn of Britain over the door.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
