How to Use googly-eyed in a Sentence

googly-eyed

adjective
  • Mia puffs up her body to look intimidating, as the googly-eyed statue stares back at her.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Pink poodles with long black eyelashes danced in a can-can line, a quartet of googly-eyed cacti bobbed along to the music and a trio of small white dogs galloped on the stage.
    — Rebecca Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The ants that animators once morphed into googly-eyed caricatures in films such as A Bug’s Life and Antz just received a meticulously precise anatomical reboot.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Gritty — the googly-eyed, wild-bearded, furry menace introduced by the Flyers in September 2018 — has long been a source of viral moments during the regular season.
    — Ryan Brennan april 23, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In the one that opens the film, Forky (Tony Hale), the googly-eyed spork, marries a plastic knife called Karen Beverly (Melissa Villaseñor), a name so perfectly unmelodious that only a kid, or an adult exceptionally good at thinking like one, could have concocted it.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026

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