How to Use wide-eyed in a Sentence

wide-eyed

adjective
  • Nacua, 22, saw his younger self in the wide-eyed teenage players.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Beneath the surface of wide-eyed smiles and laughs lies a steely resolve.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Trump had such goodwill and faced an arena filled with wide-eyed worshipers.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
  • This one’s less wide-eyed and heartbroken and surprised and sad.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
  • At the mosque in Homs, the man’s sons—wide-eyed, barefoot—tried to mimic him.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Few crowds ooze wide-eyed fear like New Englanders.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
  • As if the wide-eyed innocent who arrived here has been hardened.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Jamilah watched from the stands, too young to be in the show but wide-eyed at the thought of being out there one day.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Thankfully, most of them are looking a little wide-eyed as well.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Wolff, with her blond bob and easy warmth, is usually in the thick of a phalanx of wide-eyed young fans.
    — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The move sparked a some wide-eyed responses from the audience.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In the scene, Whitney looks wide-eyed and shocked like many of the other women.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The night watchman stokes his lamp and walks wide-eyed tourists through the back lanes telling stories of hot oil and great plagues.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Amazon has a 40-piece set of wide-eyed needles for easy threading.
    — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • That’s a fantasy as wide-eyed and naïve as Shucked’s own hero, Maizy.
    — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In another scene, Matt stares wide-eyed on the set of one of the studio’s films.
    — Jp Mangalindan, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Streep, however, still remains wide-eyed at the love for the franchise.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2026
  • This is a youthful, wide-eyed approach to Parker and to the story at large.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
  • In the artwork, Cyrus is captured wide-eyed and wild-haired in a blue fur coat against a grey background.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Teammate Jordan Chiles watched wide-eyed from the floor, cheering her on.
    — Candace Buckner, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • In the now-viral video, the tuxedo cat crawls out from under the bed, wide-eyed and bewildered.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Squeezed between us in the bed, my daughter listened wide-eyed to the storm before drifting off to sleep.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 26 June 2025
  • Even Ranger’s foster parent was impressed with the fast turnaround the wide-eyed cat made.
    — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2025
  • His mom so graciously gave us—two wide-eyed 11-year-olds—the reins to plan and curate our own menu.
    — Emily Bloch, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • At 27, Ebeling had a wide-eyed, high-energy way about him.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Paramedics lifted the tiny, wide-eyed child out of his wheelchair and onto a gurney that dwarfed him even further.
    — Ana Ley, New York Times, 5 May 2024
  • In the snap, the wide-eyed infant looked at his father with wonder while wearing a green and white striped onesie.
    — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The boys are twins, the kind of kids who giggle together at each new sight, wide-eyed and curious at the world.
    — USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Sitting across from me, Pearlman is wide-eyed and motormouthed.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
  • She was chosen to play the role of a wide-eyed singer because her husband worked in the music industry.
    — Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024

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