How to Use glass eye in a Sentence

glass eye

noun
  • Her big blue glass eyes seem to stare right at me, and her mouth has been sewn shut.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Crenshaw lost his right eye, and now has a glass eye and wears an eye patch.
    — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Even a spoon, a toothbrush, and a glass eye have been found in some displays.
    — Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2011
  • One heavy gets punched so hard that his glass eye pops out and rolls into a mousehole.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Out sprawled a wild sea of glass eyes, silver spurs and mystery elixirs locked into filmy jars.
    — Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Rudolph lost vision in one of her eyes and eventually had to get a glass eye.
    — Demarco Morgan, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Deion James has a glass eye somewhere in his drawer that matches his right eye.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The owl has glass eyes and a mouthpiece made from deer antler, and is perched on a driftwood stump that’s attached to a walnut base.
    — Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2020
  • His glass eye never stayed in its place, falling out at the most inopportune moments.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • When Daniel Kish takes his glass eyes out of their sockets, the two boys sitting near him have some questions.
    — Michael Minahan, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Herold, who now has a glass eye and sometimes uses an eye patch, said that recovering from the injury has been brutal.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Those who peered closely through his designer glasses could see, beneath his glass eye, on his left cheek, his trademark tattoos.
    — Dallas News, 22 May 2020
  • The stunt involved a glass eye, of course, which, when discovered, led to the forfeiture of the Dutchman’s stake.
    — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The robot's creators even fitted the president with dentures and glass eyes from a local mortician.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2017
  • His glass eye was knocked out once, during an exhibition game against the Cleveland Browns early in his career.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Nor is Mattel’s 11-inch version the most huggable plush available, with its vinyl head and rather unnerving huge glass eyes.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Crafting and painting his own glass eyes sets Jeffers apart from the competition, Johnson said.
    — Lizzy Alspach, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
  • The process is gentle enough to render a hernia mesh as new as the day the surgeon implanted it, but strong enough to bleach the color out of glass eyes and fake fingernails.
    — Hayley Campbell, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Then, in 1954, a near-fatal car crash left him with a glass eye and started him on a journey of spiritual inquiry.
    — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
  • His social climbing wife (Andrea Riseborough) seemingly detests him, and his glass eye keeps falling out.
    — cleveland, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Falk, who died in 2011 at the age of 83, per The New York Times, famously had a glass eye, which became a signature trait of his detective character.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • Battle Cat Crafted with collector-level detail, this figure features a screen-accurate design inspired by the live-action film, highlighted by a muscular sculpt, lifelike glass eyes, and a posable jaw.
    — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This unusual new superyacht concept has a giant glass eye Introducing the extravagant 110-meter vessel, Zion.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 19 May 2022

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