set eyes on
Example Sentences
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Jeff Siegrist was a student at the University of Tennessee when he first set eyes on her at a Knoxville dealership.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
When you first set eyes on the depths of social collapse and public distress, it’s shocking.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2024
Ms Austin set eyes on her first Barbie doll as a small child, when she was in an airport with her mother.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2023
By the time Boikiv set eyes on her husband again, Kolia had been dead for a month.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2022
She was the only naturalist in Europe who had set eyes on most of them.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
