How to Use glass eye in a Sentence

glass eye

noun
  • Crenshaw lost his right eye, and now has a glass eye and wears an eye patch.
    Fox News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The owl has glass eyes and a mouthpiece made from deer antler, and is perched on a driftwood stump that’s attached to a walnut base.
    Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The stunt involved a glass eye, of course, which, when discovered, led to the forfeiture of the Dutchman’s stake.
    Darryl Levings, kansascity, 26 Jan. 2018
  • As far as Hubble’s glass eye could see, there were galaxies.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Nor is Mattel’s 11-inch version the most huggable plush available, with its vinyl head and rather unnerving huge glass eyes.
    Scott Craven, azcentral, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The process is gentle enough to render a hernia mesh as new as the day the surgeon implanted it, but strong enough to bleach the color out of glass eyes and fake fingernails.
    Hayley Campbell, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Herold, who now has a glass eye and sometimes uses an eye patch, said that recovering from the injury has been brutal.
    Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
  • His glass eye was knocked out once, during an exhibition game against the Cleveland Browns early in his career.
    Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Those who peered closely through his designer glasses could see, beneath his glass eye, on his left cheek, his trademark tattoos.
    Dallas News, 22 May 2020
  • The robot's creators even fitted the president with dentures and glass eyes from a local mortician.
    Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2017
  • His social climbing wife (Andrea Riseborough) seemingly detests him, and his glass eye keeps falling out.
    cleveland, 5 Oct. 2022
  • This unusual new superyacht concept has a giant glass eye Introducing the extravagant 110-meter vessel, Zion.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 19 May 2022

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