How to Use bug-eyed in a Sentence

bug-eyed

adjective
  • Just the type of closure that would leave Wharton and Frost bug-eyed.
    — Chuck Palahniuk, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Try a pair of trendy bug-eyed sunglasses to balance out your gigantic grocery tote.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 6 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a bug-eyed rabbit, a blue donkey and several variations of what appear to be skulls.
    — Ryan Steven Green, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • View gallery - 7 images Back in the day, the Sportage was first introduced as a bug-eyed monstrosity of a compact utility.
    — New Atlas, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Colossal bug-eyed shades are dominating this season—just ask style icons like Victoria Beckham and Amal Clooney.
    — Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Laina Morris, for instance, has tried to move on from the image of her grinning, bug-eyed face that became a popular meme portraying her as an overly protective and clingy girlfriend.
    — Ben Pettis, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The occupational therapist’s bug-eyed goldfish and my attending’s regal twin tabbies, Sasha and Mischa, stare back at me from the wall.
    — Ashley Andreou, STAT, 22 June 2026
  • In his weirdest picture—the late, baroque, campy Allegory of Faith—a bug-eyed female figure is shown clutching her chest, one foot balanced perilously on a globe, while a snake gushing blood from its jaws gyrates in the foreground.
    — Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • Herzog, known for his enigmatic films and single-minded commitment to achieving the impossible (pulling a boat over a mountain, for one) found a worthy artistic partner in the square-jawed, demonically charming, bug-eyed Klaus Kinski.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 27 May 2026
  • Instead of an ´80s tracksuit and bug-eyed glasses, the Best Supporting Actress nominee wore a Dior jacket outfit covered in black and yellow petal-like embroidery, paired with slim trousers and tinted sunglasses.
    — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Critics called the Airflow bug-eyed and rhinocerine, according to a 1977 retrospective by Howard Irwin in Scientific American.
    — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The infamous Gritty, the orange, bug-eyed mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team, has cameoed on the show, along with Philadelphia Eagles players like Jason Kelce.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • If her look tilted discreet, her brother Cruz went the opposite direction earlier in the day, wearing JW Anderson’s frog loafers — glossy green PVC slip-ons with bug-eyed detailing from the Wellipets collaboration.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

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