How to Use eye roll in a Sentence

eye roll

noun

• The thing is, we get drowned in bar tools, accessories, and (eye roll) whiskey stones.
  — G. Clay Whittaker, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
• The caption of the photo is a series of eye roll emojis.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• She will be missed for her epic nerdmance eye rolls, if nothing else.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• Her second jump of 20-1.5 was met with an eye roll and a look of confusion to her coaches.
  — Nikstreng, oregonlive, 28 May 2023
• The audience, full of eye rolls, struggled to keep from laughing out loud.
  — Scott Howard-Cooper., Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• The eye rolls, the attitude, the utter contempt—that’s Ennui, or boredom in French.
  — Rosemary Counter, TIME, 14 June 2024
• It’s best summed up, students say, as a collective eye roll and a quick jump into the Settings app.
  — Monica Chin, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2023
• The interesting thing was when Ted got in the car, his eye roll turned into, ‘Oh, wait a minute, Mom might have something right here.
  — Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 16 July 2023
• Many countries chose silence in public and eye rolls in private.
  — Damien Cave, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• In 2024, news about a celebrity beauty brand tends to be met with an audible sigh and an eye roll at Allure HQ.
  — Allure Editors, Allure, 28 Feb. 2024
• Teachers still get the name wrong during the first week of classes, inducing an eye roll during roll call.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Putting yourself out there and talking about money can still be seen by much of the British aristocracy with an eye roll.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• In today's age of technology, three-ring binders will likely be met with eye rolls.
  — Jerry Dolinsky, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• So much of her music sounds like the soundtrack to an early-two-thousands teen drama, each line delivered with an eye roll.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
• An eye roll followed — and made the rounds on social media — before Boone took the ball from the Cortes, who had clearly earned himself an early shower in what became a 9-7 loss to the Red Sox.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
• Deadpan wit and the ability to intimidate with a single eye roll?
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• This year, Goldman found examples of heart eyes, eye rolls, devil faces, rats, kisses, and nuts mentioned in lawsuits.
  — Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
• Several pet owners told me that a bit more grace would be nice, too: fewer eye rolls or snide comments, fewer jokes about dying alone.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2024
• Zendaya and her team let the world know that, and Zendaya herself responded to the tabloid report with the meme equivalent of an eye roll on her Instagram Story.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 13 June 2023
• The responses of her guests are divided between eye rolls and helpful attempts to discourage her toil in the future.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• But this movie’s mostly a three-hander with Brooke, Chris and puppy-cute Zara, who’s got a nice screwball delivery and a very effective, if somewhat overused, eye roll.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• Others conjure entire inner universes through a private smirk or silent eye roll — Raúl Esparza and Jermaine Fowler, as two of the guests, have a knack for popping from the background.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2023
• The comic patter is familiar but effective, much of it swirling around Peter’s efforts to charm his way past Gamora’s hostile eye rolls.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• And while that will undoubtedly garner some eye rolls from some bloodthirsty fans, that is not to say boiling feuds and intense square-offs do not exist in their more than 600-strong fighter roster.
  — Andrew McNicol, CNN, 5 May 2023
• But aren’t teens supposed to be communicating in single syllables, terse texts, eye rolls, and grunts, if at all? Mothers and their tween and teen daughters aren’t supposed to see eye-to-eye on many things.
  — Chris Morris, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• The third time around, Megan Rapinoe’s reaction to a potentially career-ending knee injury went no further than an eye roll.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Within this folksy milieu, Black plays it totally straight, never indulging in a wry crack or an exaggerated eye roll.
  — Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
• This might inspire a few exasperated eye rolls, but this is really the pandemic’s doing.
  — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 5 July 2024
• Using a card to tip was often impossible and could even elicit eye rolls from an unsympathetic bartender.
  — Anthony Palazzo, Fortune Europe, 10 May 2024
• Nearby, a man and woman shouted at each other on the sidewalk, prompting a barely perceptible eye roll from a merchant stocking produce into bins.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024