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
Kurata also did the ensembles for the Oscar-nominated “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with its wardrobe of googly eyes and Elvis jumpsuits.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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
A 20-year-old woman has been convicted on a graffiti charge for sticking googly eyes on a famous sculpture in South Australia.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Otto stomped back to the bike, while Sheed made his final googly eyes.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
"There was this little kid who bowled leg-spin, googlies and top-spinners. It was like Shane Warne."
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
He walked two paces then scurried to the crease, unleashing flat leg-breaks and devilish googlies.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2022
“I’ll never bowl googlies again, never deliver a chinaman to a left-hander.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2017
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
There is often a certain looseness about the attack after lunch, and the bowler of googlies took advantage of it now.
From Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
