How to Use wild-eyed in a Sentence

wild-eyed

adjective
  • Back on the ground, Emerald was wild-eyed with adrenaline.
    — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Similarly, one or two wild-eyed acolytes can get a movie nominated.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Malek, wild-eyed as ever, portrays Kelley as an overconfident opportunist who is more than willing to cross lines to gain Goering’s trust.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Their unvarnished alt-rock was led by wild-eyed singer Matt Shultz, a human rubber band who exhausted himself despite his vocals disappearing into the strong breeze.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • An adaptive suspension offers an especially broad spectrum between GT-style comfort and, in its full Corsa mode, wild-eyed performance.
    — Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2025
  • When the full-time whistle blew at the Alinma Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Matthias Jaissle was wild-eyed.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Not particularly, and especially not when compared to the proud tradition of female Ghostfaces who came before her, all of whom reach a level of wild-eyed rage and desperation that Quinn never really approaches.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
  • As in Robinson’s other works, what elevates them from amusing to sublime is the way they’re performed, often by unfamiliar but wonderfully offbeat character actors — through overly broad smiles, wild-eyed smirks, strange pronunciations.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Albert Collins Known as The Master Of The Telecaster, Albert Collins was both blues legend and wild-eyed showman, picking out licks on his 1966 Custom Tele, usually in an open tuning, with a capo on the neck.
    — New Atlas, 30 May 2026
  • One of Al Pacino’s finest performances of the 1970s — which, with the Godfather films and Serpico, is an absurd hot hand — is as the enigmatic, wild-eyed Sonny, a man who performs a desperate bank robbery with his partner (the late John Cazale, by turns heartbreakingly clueless and dopily funny).
    — Christina Newland, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 historical fiction novel, the film follows playwright William Shakespeare (Mescal) and his wild-eyed wife, Agnes (Buckley), whose relationship is splintered by the tragic loss of their young son, Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe).
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025

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