How to Use wide-eyed in a Sentence

wide-eyed

adjective

• Nacua, 22, saw his younger self in the wide-eyed teenage players.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• What if the world’s most powerful — and lethal — AI being took the form of a wide-eyed 5-year-old?
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• That’s a fantasy as wide-eyed and naïve as Shucked’s own hero, Maizy.
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• The night watchman stokes his lamp and walks wide-eyed tourists through the back lanes telling stories of hot oil and great plagues.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• In both shots, the feline is wide-eyed and partially wet.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
• Pau Gasol, a Spaniard and Barcelona native, had the Olympics in his backyard and followed with wide-eyed awe.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• In the artwork, Cyrus is captured wide-eyed and wild-haired in a blue fur coat against a grey background.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
• There’s a sort of wide-eyed innocence in spite of being old.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• The boys are twins, the kind of kids who giggle together at each new sight, wide-eyed and curious at the world.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• In the end, Friedkin cast Ellen Burstyn and then Blair, a wide-eyed newcomer, as her daughter.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2023
• In the snap, the wide-eyed infant looked at his father with wonder while wearing a green and white striped onesie.
  — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
• Katz's wide-eyed Max, who would do anything to protect his little sister Dani, is the grounding force of the movie.
  — Ale Russian, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Paramedics lifted the tiny, wide-eyed child out of his wheelchair and onto a gurney that dwarfed him even further.
  — Ana Ley, New York Times, 5 May 2024
• The selfie shows the 13-year-old with his hair braided, staring at the camera wide-eyed as his dad tries to take his braids out with the help of a ballpoint pen.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 17 June 2023
• This time around, Ragans wasn’t so much the young wide-eyed kid that once spent a day shadowing Cole Hamels at spring training.
  — Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2023
• And the master’s precise eye saw something 16 years ago in the younger Ruan, wide-eyed and working his first job as a server.
  — Paul Winner, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
• Sitting wide-eyed on the couch that day watching the Summer Games with her family, the soon-to-be high school freshman vowed to one day make it to the Olympics herself.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
• As a result, four wide-eyed sophomores are starting this season.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2023
• Most of all, there’s a sense of Houser’s own wide-eyed dismay at the polarization of talk radio and cable news.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
• Her depiction of her children as wide-eyed engines of wonder and truth is tiresome as a trope.
  — Lisa Levy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Many of the injured are frantic, wide-eyed; others stare vacantly ahead.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
• But Civil War’s Jessie is mostly so wide-eyed that there’s barely a character there.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
• As Ruthie, White also hurls herself all the way into shaking, wide-eyed, tear-and-snot-faced terror with a force that pulls us along after her.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2023
• Jayden, 36, is shown stepping halfway into the frame while boasting a wide-eyed, happy look at the camera.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023
• The visiting North Carolina Courage figure to be wide-eyed.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• The wide-eyed driver was taken aback by the track’s size — even though at that point, Martinsville’s half-mile bullring might as well have been a superspeedway.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 15 Feb. 2024
• The trailer begins with a hungry, wide-eyed young Garfield stumbling across a man sitting by himself in a pizza parlor.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
• Some are sheltering babies, all fluffy gray coats and wide-eyed innocence.
  — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
• For more than two decades, wide-eyed kids (and their parents) have attended the annual Parma Safety Fair.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2023
• Churchwell said, wide-eyed and leaning toward the reporter asking about D’Anton’s feedback.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024