How to Use eyeball in a Sentence

eyeball

1 of 3 noun
  • How is that for a punch in the eyeballs?
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 15 May 2026
  • Let’s get the clicks, lure the eyeballs, and cash in on those pop-up ads.
    — Big Think, 11 Mar. 2026
  • So were those who could attract enough eyeballs.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 May 2026
  • The eyeball makes its sheep host stamp out two of pi’s digits.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Bizarre faces and eyeballs loom from the ceiling.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The answer is not just about eyeballs.
    — Adam Annaccone, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
  • More than the stats, though, the eyeballs hated him.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • But none of that is why this clip has millions of eyeballs on it right now.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
  • There’s no eyeballs to look into.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • And so some time spent and eyeballs are going to shift to these people.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The eyeball worm was his only sign of trouble.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Spear each eyeball with a toothpick and attach to the tops of the eye cutouts.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
  • Then there is the sheep that the eyeball alien possesses.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Roku gives Fox access to eyeballs — lots of ’em.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 16 June 2026
  • Check out video episodes of the podcast and let my mouth tones pour into your eyeballs.
    — Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2026
  • There’s no transparency as to how well the show does or how many eyeballs are on it.
    — Time, 20 July 2023
  • But none of it matters without eyeballs.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 May 2026
  • All that remained on the serving tray was an ominous eyeball.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Its pitch black pupil and black rim added to the eyeball's eerie accuracy.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 26 Sep. 2022
  • But Sky, a friend of Ripley’s, may draw even more eyeballs.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
  • Move the pressure down towards your eyeball, then move your finger from side to side.
    — Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
  • When the user moves their eye up, left, or right, this stored static charge moves along with the eyeball.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Arthur then sits up, his body now being controlled by the eyeball monster.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • These eight-hour treatments were enough to prevent the eyeball from changing shape.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The stairwell was quickly consumed by smoke that scorched her eyeballs.
    — Joyce Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • What’s the best thing and the most challenging thing about having more eyeballs on you?
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2026
  • Except for its large, dark eyeball, the whole fish looks like it was dipped in liquid silver.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Ankles, knees, fingers, toes and even eyeballs.
    — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • And that should be pressure enough, without all the public eyeballs.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The fruit’s pale, glossy surface already gives it that eerie eyeball effect.
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025

eyeball

2 of 3 verb
  • The children were eyeballing the desserts.
  • The women held up the jeans to their waists, eyeballing the sizes.
    — Andrea Sachs, Houston Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Will eyeballed the waning clock and fired a wild shot toward the rafters.
    — Abe Streep, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • And a curious seal pops its head out of the frigid water, eyeballing us.
    — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2018
  • You'd likely be surprised by how off spacing can be when just eyeballing it.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2026
  • Read the story and eyeball the search warrant by clicking here.
    — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • First, dad, remind your daughter to stop eyeballing strangers in the bathroom.
    — Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Don’t eyeball it — use measuring cups and spoons and level them off with the flat side of a knife.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Just carefully eyeball the plans' specs, because some are rather skimpy.
    — PC Magazine, 17 Nov. 2025
  • How might an analyst begin to eyeball the riches up for grabs?
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The second one, however, is that -- just eyeballing it!
    — Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • When making sesame soba noodle salad, feel free to eyeball the mix-ins.
    — Elyssa Goldberg, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The pitmaster eyeballs the meat’s progress and controls the fire with a garden hose.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Judging from my few journeys outside my home the past few weeks, many people aren’t eyeballing it very well.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Cons This vacuum seal storage bag doesn’t have a stop line on the bag, which can be tricky to eyeball.
    — Lindsay Tigar, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Start by eyeballing those five to seven trunks that are the straightest and most evenly spaced toward the center of the plant.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • That hasn’t happened, in large part because most shoppers prefer to squeeze their produce and eyeball their steaks.
    — Matt Day, Bloomberg.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Being able to eyeball the difference between parsley and cilantro?
    — Ashley Mason, Bon Appetit, 1 Mar. 2017
  • One team eyeballs the flour, and accidentally doubles the milk.
    — Anya Van Wagtendonk, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
  • With a rise in offers of bogus vaccination cards, vendors will have to eyeball each one for forgeries.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Aug. 2021
  • What Beathard did was become the blur in the airport, traveling from city to city to eyeball talent.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Recently, though, the wineries have become a common second stop after the chance to eyeball those armies.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2018
  • These are not the offices where your grandparents worked, clocking out at 5 sharp, eyeballing the corner office.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Through coordination with venue staff, Tegan and Sara’s team eyeballed open seats and filled them with fans lined up at the door.
    — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Ted Waters, with his real leg crossed over his mechanical one, eyeballed my approach.
    — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • But on the way to the ice and milk stand, the nurses were eyeballing babies for signs of flushness or fever that could suggest the first signs of polio that the mothers might have missed.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 May 2020
  • Late in the first quarter, Williams took a direct snap and slid along the line of scrimmage, patiently eyeballing the defensive pursuit.
    — Les East, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Armed with this information, the robot can then walk the same route autonomously, using its cameras to eyeball a now-familiar world.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 June 2018
  • Alvarez eyeballed all the measurements, so Ruiz had to figure out the recipe himself, using just the ingredients his mom passed along to him.
    — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • The metaphor of a glorious, trapped being eyeballing the world stalks and shapes this captivating novel, the first from writer Bushra Rehman.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023

eyeball

3 of 3 adjective
  • One of the features of this one will be an eyeball race down the river.
    — Greg Burnett, cleveland.com, 5 May 2018
  • Garnish with marinara sauce on top of the round for blood shot eyeball effect.
    — Lauren Le Vine, Redbook, 23 Sep. 2014
  • The eyeball test matters, and on defense the Tide draw a failing grade.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Plus, eyeball injections will make even the toughest soldiers weak in the knees.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Teal pumpkins on display indicate that a house has non-food treats such as glow-sticks or eyeball bouncy balls for trick-or-treaters.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The two best horses in the Preakness will be eyeball-to-eyeball coming out of the starting gate.
    — Beth Harris, courant.com, 17 May 2017
  • But the eyeball test tells you there are problems getting to closer Craig Kimbrel.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 14 July 2017
  • Their objection is to how it is being used primarily by tech giants to boost eyeball time.
    — Haley Sweetland Edwards, Time, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Simply tap the eyeball icon to reveal the lingering ghosts of relationships past!
    — Beca Grimm, The Cut, 4 May 2018
  • Apparently there is a practice known as eyeball tattooing in which a person permanently dyes the whites of his or her eyes.
    — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The defense passed the eyeball test on Sunday, even without first round pick Myles Garrett playing right end.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • An assortment of artwork on the walls, ranging from an eyeball abstract and alligator collage to photos of buoys and herons.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Not that the Spartans aren’t already eyeball deep in it, with their annual nonconference gauntlet slowly coming to an end.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The eyeball view through the windshield was a different story, with darkness providing an effective camouflage.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The Kia’s cabin design is a pastiche of the Mercedes-Benz, with three eyeball air outlets, tablet-style center screen, and banded aluminum switches.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • More than most dance makers, Pite forcefully delivers a full range of expressive possibilities from the tiniest eyeball twitch to bodies stretched and twisted to extremes.
    — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The usual blood splatter, witch claws, and bloody eyeball nails have made their way into the collective, while new designs, including our dear friend Penny Wise, are extremely popular this year.
    — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The mask was accessorized with sunglasses, a dinner jacket, a Residents eyeball T-shirt, and Under Armour sweatpants.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2020
  • As for the eyeball test, Crowell appeared to be a much-improved back in 2016, showing more decisiveness and taking significant steps forward as a pass-catcher.
    — cleveland.com, 5 June 2017
  • In the three previous installments, visual effects master Rick Baker was brought on to handle the fantastical, eyeball-tickling creatures designs.
    — Mike Scott, nola.com, 12 June 2019
  • Parents in Berkeley, California, may soon be spared having their kids at eyeball level with candy and other sugar-laden temptations waiting in the checkout lines of the city's larger retail stores.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The eyeball test, the Huskies passed — appearing to play harder and more cohesively throughout the season, generally avoiding blowout losses except where injuries left them impossibly thin.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Two men have also previously presented similar complications from eyeball tattoos, according to the 2017 report in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
    — Melissa Chan, PEOPLE.com, 29 Sep. 2017

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