How to Use eye-rolling in a Sentence

eye-rolling

noun
  • Yet the eye-rolling has stopped.
    — Natalie Sum Yue Chung, Fortune, 3 May 2026
  • Those calls have been met with eye-rolling and righteous indignation.
    — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • This has provoked inevitable eye-rolling about nepotism, but Mann is a comedic star in her own right.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The eye-rolling, groaning, mock-despair brings the group together.
    — Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • It could also be implied or even non-verbal, such as sarcasm, eye-rolling or mockery.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • But here are our choices of the most meme-orable, eye-rolling, jaw-dropping and head-scratching moments of the year.
    — Will Barker, TheWeek, 30 Dec. 2025
  • On the plus side, the young acting talent and a welcome lightheartedness will keep the eye-rolling to a minimum.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Having started amid much fanfare and considerable eye-rolling from purists, the tournament is about to enter a new phase of cash injection.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The most predictable parts of Ryan Engle's script – and there are quite a few – tend to be eye-rolling, though better than your standard Lifetime fare at least.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Infiniti makes that mix of tenderness and eye-rolling protectiveness believable.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Their evident fondness for one another, glowing warmly alongside all their sniping and whispering and eye-rolling, allows all the nightmares in Big Mistakes to feel like a lark rather than an incipient calamity.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Grated eggs This trend has taken TikTok and other social media platforms by storm recently, resulting in, depending on your outlook, the most craveable or eye-rolling of concoctions.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Apr. 2026

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