lay eyes on
Example Sentences
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Others assembled nearby, hoping for a chance to merely lay eyes on her or, perhaps, to get lucky enough to join the meet-and-greet.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025
They know they’re both spies when they lay eyes on each other for the first time at the New York apartment doubling as their HQ.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2024
Of the hundreds of souls that gathered here in Lower Manhattan, only a few dozen journalists, police officers and lawyers would even lay eyes on the man they had come to see.
From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2023
Most of us will only lay eyes on a polar bear in the dreary confines of a zoo, if that.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2022
The Yaba warriors hadn’t even been able to enforce the usual dress code; people from all over the city had gathered to lay eyes on him, to touch him.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
