How to Use beady in a Sentence

beady

adjective
  • The newborns have long tails, round heads and beady eyes.
    Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The suspect’s eyes are drawn as black and beady, and his left ear is obscured.
    Jonathan Sperling, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • That’s what viewers take away: The gaping mouth, the rows of ragged teeth, the beady eyes, all coming for you.
    Suzannah Evans Comfort, Fortune, 23 July 2017
  • Meanwhile, the parents have this crazy, beady-eyed look.
    Ruth S. Barrett, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Fresh in his memory was the Brillo-like fur, the beady eyes, the immense strength.
    Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • His head was slightly turned, with one of his beady eyes glaring at me.
    David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The large, winged bugs with beady red eyes made their presence known in Maryland over the weekend.
    Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2021
  • His eyes beady, his forehead shiny, and his speech slightly out of sync from his mouth.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Every day, at school, The Witch, with bony hands and beady eyes, worked to dominate us with fear.
    Naz Riahi, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The headlights lit up his beady eyes just before he was crunched under the left side of the car, leaving a big dent in the bumper.
    Jack Dickey, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Hang one of these from a hook and make all your guests feel like they’re surrounded by beady little eyes.
    Sunset Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The two biggest things that jumped out at me were how flat its head was and for such a large animal how beady its eyes are.
    Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
  • The two biggest things that jumped out at me were how flat its head was and for such a large animal how beady its eyes are.
    Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
  • The cicada has all the primeval panoply to feed this panic, with its orange-veined wings, black body, beady red eyes and sheer size.
    Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
  • With his long leathery neck, dull-yellow face and beady eyes, there’s just something about Diego.
    Aimee Ortiz, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Voles are adorably diminutive creatures with big heads, beady eyes, and squat bodies.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Close the lid and pulse in a series of short bursts, until the mixture looks uniformly beady but does not yet form large clumps of dough.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
  • The common hamster, as the wild species is known, is about the size and shape of a sweet potato, with calico fur, beady dark eyes and half-moon ears.
    Ben Crair, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Paul is a weirdo with beady serial-killer eyes and a lengthy criminal record.
    Sarah Hagi, The Cut, 20 Oct. 2017
  • In 1994, these young men risked their careers by going after those beady-eyed, blood-thirsty weasels.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 8 Apr. 2017
  • Mirror the birds' dead, beady eyes in yours to assert your dominance and protect your snacks.
    Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2019
  • According to the Desert Museum, the Gila monster has a large head with small beady eyes and a short fat tail.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Images of Asians having beady, slanted eyes and buck teeth have been a part of the American consciousness for a long time.
    Washington Post, 26 May 2021
  • After Thursday’s hike, a needle jabbed above a turtle’s head to draw blood while the reptile clawed through air with its rusty legs and stared ahead with beady red eyes.
    Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
  • The heads of more recent scorpion species are adorned with multiple rows of beady, pinprick eyes.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The cat-sized critter has a half-silver and half-auburn coat, beady eyes, spindly legs, and a pointed face that does indeed look like a cross between a mouse and a deer—but with fangs.
    Melissa Locker, Smithsonian, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Also, with his shiny pate and beady eyes, Harris looked vaguely like a serial killer.
    Lucinda Rosenfeld, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • But in person, the drink looks like a deranged cheese monster, with olives as beady eyes and a dripping Velveeta cheese rim as a lopsided mouth.
    Jess Eng, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
  • Pavlovic submitted a sketch that captured the creature’s spooky aesthetic, right down to its beady eyes and the fabric-like swirls of its outfit.
    Molly Born, Washington Post, 6 May 2021
  • This week's new series, conversely, is a full return to the Fraggle-verse of old, complete with a massive underground lair built by tiny, beady-eyed characters known as Doozers.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2022

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