How to Use eye roll in a Sentence

eye roll

noun
  • Cue an eye roll reaching the top of my head.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The posh-boy profile alone is enough to invite eye rolls.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 10 June 2026
  • The remarks drew plenty of eye rolls.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Rather, Olen cracked dad jokes that elicited eye rolls from the kids.
    — David Gleisner, Outside, 24 Mar. 2026
  • She will be missed for her epic nerdmance eye rolls, if nothing else.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Musée Mécanique Skip the eye roll.
    — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Think selfcare without the eye rolls.
    — Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The thing is, we get drowned in bar tools, accessories, and (eye roll) whiskey stones.
    — G. Clay Whittaker, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Her embrace of holistic therapies has drawn some eye rolls in the press.
    — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 9 May 2025
  • Many countries chose silence in public and eye rolls in private.
    — Damien Cave, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • The audience, full of eye rolls, struggled to keep from laughing out loud.
    — Scott Howard-Cooper., Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The eye rolls while giving Shannon hugs (before hugs were banned).
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • In today's age of technology, three-ring binders will likely be met with eye rolls.
    — Jerry Dolinsky, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • George Eliot’s Middlemarch would suffer the same eye rolls.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In truth, the eye roll might have been missed had Mather not been trying to film a video of them together.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
  • His answer was best reflected in the eye roll that preceded his reply.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Teachers still get the name wrong during the first week of classes, inducing an eye roll during roll call.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But when teammates challenged her ideas, her irritation flared—a sharp comment here, an eye roll there.
    — Marc Brackett, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • It’s best summed up, students say, as a collective eye roll and a quick jump into the Settings app.
    — Monica Chin, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Chelsea’s American owner got eye rolls for suggesting an all-star game.
    — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2025
  • Hayden, working the grill behind her husband, laughs and shakes her head with a slight eye roll the way only a loving wife can.
    — Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 2 Apr. 2026
  • So much of her music sounds like the soundtrack to an early-two-thousands teen drama, each line delivered with an eye roll.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Putting yourself out there and talking about money can still be seen by much of the British aristocracy with an eye roll.
    — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Deadpan wit and the ability to intimidate with a single eye roll?
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Feel free to leave eye rolls and alternative proposals in the comments section.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Chess bogs its narrator down with needless exposition and jokes more deserving of an eye roll than a laugh.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Baldwin said with confidence, to which Carmen responded with an eye roll.
    — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Add a fake snake toy , snake temporary tattoos on your arms, and some eye rolls to really nail Rausch’s entire vibe.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Another source of eye rolls among attendees was a lack of Wi-Fi and spotty phone service.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But aren’t teens supposed to be communicating in single syllables, terse texts, eye rolls, and grunts, if at all? Mothers and their tween and teen daughters aren’t supposed to see eye-to-eye on many things.
    — Chris Morris, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023

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