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
• The shapes: beady or fingerlike projections and even soft, bag-like fibromas.
  — Jessica Chia, SELF, 20 Apr. 2022
• That contrasts with dozens of rudimentary, half-anthropomorphized parakeets — pink, green, yellow and blue birds with beady eyes and bulbous nostrils.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024