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
Try adding big googly eyes to your outdoor plants and bushes to spookify your outdoor space without the hassle.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
The indestructible Bundt is sitting on his windowsill wearing googly eyes that are staring right at me.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
"There was this little kid who bowled leg-spin, googlies and top-spinners. It was like Shane Warne."
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
He was bowling googlies, flippers and sliders before the age of 10.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2022
Sky subscriptions may be buoyant and ITV may have clambered out of the ditch, but it is not for nothing that media execs mutter about a certain tech giant bowling them googlies.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2011
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
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
