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
Even then, before lockdown, I witnessed the glassy-eyed expressions — a mix of fear, confusion, and exhaustion — from students at every mention of the pandemic.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2025
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
He looked at me, glassy-eyed with fear, as if he didn’t know where he was or what he was doing.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
