wide-eyed
Example Sentences
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When she straightened up, her face was flush with a wide-eyed glow: “Oh my God!”
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Montenegrin journalists looked on wide-eyed as Bellamy used a pre-match news conference in Podgorica in 2024 to talk about Yugoslavia's Under-21s of 1990 as much as Wales' Nations League match there the following day.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
They brought with them a family album that showed a picture-perfect life: Yuriy and Valiera's wedding, their trip to Rome, and of course, wide-eyed baby Kirochka.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
On the subject of AI replacing heretofore normal human activities, Mr. Amodei, born in 1983, writes with the wide-eyed wonder of a high-school-aged techno-utopian.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
She had a hard face and blinked so rarely that Olanna was disconcerted by her wide-eyed stare the first time they spoke.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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