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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"About 54 eyases , or falcon chicks, have emerged from library rooftop scrapes over the years, library officials said. \u2014 Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com , 6 Aug. 2019",
"The newest eyases were expected to begin flying in late June. \u2014 Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com , 6 Aug. 2019",
"About 54 eyases have emerged from library rooftop scrapes over the years, library officials said. \u2014 Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com , 6 June 2019",
"The newest eyases are expected to begin flying in about three weeks. \u2014 Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com , 6 June 2019",
"The Chesapeake Conservancy, with aid from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, rescued the peregrine falcon eyas , or a young peregrine falcon, after it was found on the ground level of the building. \u2014 Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com , 6 June 2019"
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"Only a trained eye can tell the difference between the original painting and a good copy.",
"For decorating, they rely on her discerning eye .",
"He has an artist's eye for color.",
"He reviewed the proposal with a jaundiced eye .",
"The biographer cast a cold eye on the artist's life.",
"Verb",
"I saw someone eyeing me from across the street.",
"a lot of his backyard bird watching was spent eyeing the squirrels as they depleted the bird feeder of seeds",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"What eye can trace them, in their varied wanton amorous chaces, bounding and fluttering on the odiferous air! \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"The five sessions have revealed a storyteller's eye , with focus, clarity, a ... \u2014 David Bauder, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"Colorful Mario Kart landscapes careen through the mind\u2019s eye as two adult gamers name-drop their favorite virtual racing courses: Sherbet Land, Choco Mountain, Rainbow Road. \u2014 Celia Wren, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Looking more widely, the minor battery increases to the rest of the range are also eye -opening. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Eva Marcille's beauty look came courtesy makeup artist Terrell Mullin, who created one of the most all-out glamorous eye lash moments of the night. \u2014 Allure Staff, Allure , 26 June 2022",
"For a Saturday morning children\u2019s show, the number of rising stars who passed through Pee-wee\u2019s Playhouse is a marvel \u2014 and indicative of just how developed an eye Paul Reubens had for spotting emerging talent. \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 June 2022",
"The tiny creature was made from a real seashell, doll shoes, a spot of clay and a googly eye . \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, China is spending eye -watering amounts of cash to keep the ideology alive. \u2014 Selina Wang, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Sunshine rules, for the most part, as high temperatures eye a range of low to mid-70s for most of the region. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"To the east, China continues to eye an invasion of Taiwan, which many U.S. officials predict is likely by 2027. \u2014 Roger Wicker, National Review , 18 Feb. 2022",
"These are major decisions for Key as England desperately eye a turnaround in what has been a rather feeble recent Test chapter. \u2014 Tristan Lavalette, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Key senators eye new, more ambitious legislation to lower insulin prices. \u2014 Nicholas Florko, STAT , 9 Apr. 2022",
"In the meantime, the rush to create SPACs has evaporated as investors eye a crowded field and regulators take a harder line. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 1 Apr. 2022",
"At the conference, junior scholars would nervously eye one another in the elevators, trying to figure out who might be headed to which suite. \u2014 Jacob Brogan, Washington Post , 14 Mar. 2022",
"While American oil and gas companies eye new opportunities in Europe, German lawmakers want to accelerate the transition to wind and solar. \u2014 Leah Garden, The New Republic , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Dedinkin tells us that the tag sale stopped just as Stalin\u2019s money men began to eye the Morozov things. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022"
"Middle English, from Old English \u0113age ; akin to Old High German ouga eye, Latin oculus , Greek \u014dps eye, face, Sanskrit ak\u1e63i eye":"Noun"
"The bird\u2019s eye view of the race could come down to those two programs, but there are other entities with a shot at gold. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 2 May 2022",
"From the gondolas, riders get a view of the New York skyline, the New Jersey Meadowlands and the Hackensack River, and the New Jersey Turnpike, as well as a bird\u2019s eye view of the 3-million square foot American Dream complex, and Metlife Stadium. \u2014 Joan Verdon, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Throughout, readers have a bird\u2019s eye view of segregated American troops in Britain and how U.S. military police worked to keep the races apart, both on and off military bases. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Mar. 2022",
"The audience\u2019s vantage point \u2014 a bird\u2019s- eye view \u2014 is critical. \u2014 Deborah Vankin Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 Aug. 2021",
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s annual HIV Surveillance Report, published Tuesday, provides the first major bird\u2019s- eye view of the turn the country\u2019s four-decade-old epidemic took after the coronavirus upended society. \u2014 Benjamin Ryan, NBC News , 24 May 2022",
"Instead of taking a bird\u2019s- eye view , Shuang places his gaze at the level of his characters. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The legal delay likely to come will give a bird\u2019s- eye view of why unions represent just 6% of the private sector workforce. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The band\u2019s bird\u2019s- eye view of the human condition has always been a dark one, and Haake still doesn\u2019t have high hopes for mankind\u2019s overall trajectory. \u2014 Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone , 15 Mar. 2022"
": to look at intently especially in making an evaluation or choice":[
"diners eyeballing the menu",
"eyeball the competition"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The children were eyeballing the desserts.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That is, a very early digitized photo of Poor\u2019s eyeball , which seemed almost impossible to pull off at the time. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Mar. 2022",
"At the company\u2019s San Diego headquarters, ARC produced a hologram of an eyeball , which spun so it could be examined from various angles. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Lambourn removes an eyeball the size of a grapefruit. \u2014 Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads , 25 Feb. 2022",
"This 30-foot structure of an eyeball by Tony Tasset sits outside The Joule hotel in downtown Dallas. \u2014 Kristi Eaton, Chron , 13 Sep. 2021",
"The paintings range from abstracts and landscapes to specific objects, such as an eyeball or a cube. \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 26 Sep. 2021",
"That becomes evident as flies, just like the one that once perched itself on Dolores' eyeball in the season 1 premiere, swarm around the characters. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 10 May 2022",
"The gas and electric power sources combine for an insane 680 horsepower, which in our testing was enough to send the 2018 Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid to 60 mph in an eyeball -flattening 2.9 seconds. \u2014 Austin Irwin, Car and Driver , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Glenn, brutally murdered by Negan, his eyeball popping out of his skull like some grotesque cartoon death. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Don\u2019t eyeball it \u2014 use measuring cups and spoons and level them off with the flat side of a knife. \u2014 Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Download apps, such as GasBuddy, Gas Guru, and AAA, for free to eyeball the going rate. \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Don't eyeball your cocktail ingredients Just as with baking, precision makes a difference in a lot of craft cocktails. \u2014 Dana Mcmahan, The Courier-Journal , 11 Jan. 2022",
"How might an analyst begin to eyeball the riches up for grabs? \u2014 Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ , 26 Oct. 2021",
"With a rise in offers of bogus vaccination cards, vendors will have to eyeball each one for forgeries. \u2014 Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 Aug. 2021",
"With a rise in offers of bogus vaccination proof around the world, some California campuses, including San Francisco State University, have hired vendors to eyeball each card for signs of anything amiss. \u2014 Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 Aug. 2021",
"So when the researchers then took DyRET outside onto novel terrain, the robot could eyeball the ground with its camera and sense the give beneath its feet with the force sensors. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 15 Mar. 2021",
"That hasn\u2019t happened, in large part because most shoppers prefer to squeeze their produce and eyeball their steaks. \u2014 Matt Day, Bloomberg.com , 18 Nov. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Sure, in some locales there is an eyeball war that takes place. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Not that the Spartans aren\u2019t already eyeball deep in it, with their annual nonconference gauntlet slowly coming to an end. \u2014 Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press , 7 Dec. 2021",
"An assortment of artwork on the walls, ranging from an eyeball abstract and alligator collage to photos of buoys and herons. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 18 Aug. 2021",
"The eyeball view through the windshield was a different story, with darkness providing an effective camouflage. \u2014 Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press , 25 Oct. 2020",
"Parents in Berkeley, California, may soon be spared having their kids at eyeball level with candy and other sugar-laden temptations waiting in the checkout lines of the city's larger retail stores. \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 25 Sep. 2020",
"Teal pumpkins on display indicate that a house has non-food treats such as glow-sticks or eyeball bouncy balls for trick-or-treaters. \u2014 Karina Bland, azcentral , 31 Oct. 2019",
"The mask was accessorized with sunglasses, a dinner jacket, a Residents eyeball T-shirt, and Under Armour sweatpants. \u2014 Sarah Larson, The New Yorker , 3 Feb. 2020",
"The usual blood splatter, witch claws, and bloody eyeball nails have made their way into the collective, while new designs, including our dear friend Penny Wise, are extremely popular this year. \u2014 Shalwah Evans, Essence , 3 Oct. 2019"
"In the overall timeline of getting meat, firing the gun is little more than an eye blink . \u2014 David James, Anchorage Daily News , 28 Aug. 2021",
"Defunding police won\u2019t get an eye blink \u2019s consideration in Florida, but a coalition of conservative groups has been questioning ever-increasing state and local law enforcement, courts and corrections costs for more than a half-decade. \u2014 Washington Examiner , 10 June 2020",
"Dowd\u2019s father said with a chuckle, his eyes blinking away tears. \u2014 Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com , 23 Apr. 2020",
"That point occurred roughly 100 million years before the solar system formed, an eye blink in astronomical time scales. \u2014 Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American , 27 Mar. 2020",
"Glasses made by Optalert measure the driver\u2019s eye blinking with an LED light monitor. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Feb. 2020",
"Removing Asia Durr from the University of Louisville women\u2019s basketball team has resulted in a period of adjustment that might be measured in eye blinks . \u2014 Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal , 1 Mar. 2020",
"The way his eyes blink wide open illustrate the feeling of suddenly remembering something. \u2014 Rachel E. Greenspan, Time , 19 Sep. 2019",
"In less time than an eye blink , these mysterious objects can release enough energy to power the world for three centuries. \u2014 Seth Shostak, NBC News , 3 Sep. 2019"
"The families snacking on the lunch buffet that Wednesday were getting an eyeful . \u2014 Tim Zimmermann, Outside Online , 30 July 2010",
"In a moment of instantaneous recognition, an eyeful of singular automotive icons leaves the group speechless. \u2014 Basem Wasef, Robb Report , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The cast is huge and hugely talented, the sets and costumes are an eyeful , and the stage effects are cleverly inventive. \u2014 Marilyn Stasio, Variety , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Ten years ago, showgoers got an eyeful of the iPotty, a toilet training device for kids that had an iPad attached to it. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 7 Jan. 2022",
"The golf equipment cognoscenti got their first eyeful of TaylorMade\u2019s next generation driver at the PNC Championship at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando. \u2014 Mike Dojc, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Moody, who brings Notre Dame students into stores like Empire Professional Pharmacy in Glen Burnie for the clinical component of the program, said the aspiring pharmacists are getting an eyeful . \u2014 Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com , 23 Nov. 2021",
"As the sun sets and sailboats and ferries drift by, a spectator gets a hypnotic eyeful of the city\u2019s liquid border. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Aug. 2021",
"For the cap and gown recipient who loves fashion, there\u2019s an eyeful of trendy options on the market that are also on sale due to Memorial Day Weekend sneaking up. \u2014 Nandi Howard, Essence , 26 May 2021"
": a device used to correct defects of vision or to protect the eyes that consists typically of a pair of glass or plastic lenses and the frame by which they are held in place : glasses":[],
"In the last month, bandits stole more than $20,000 in merchandise at a Virginia eyeglass store outside of Washington D.C. \u2014 Adam Shaw, Fox News , 1 June 2022",
"Another man with the condition required multiple eyeglass prescriptions, shifting even between nearsightedness and farsightedness in the span of a day. \u2014 Joe Didonato, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Related Video Warby Parker was one of the original direct-to-consumer brands, but now, the eyeglass -maker\u2019s sales are split about evenly between its more than 140 bricks-and-mortar locations and its online store. \u2014 Charity L. Scott, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
"At one eyeglass store in Alexandria, a man used a hammer to smash glass display cases and the group escaped with Gucci products and a tray of sunglasses worth more than $17,000. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Last week, at least two eyeglass stores in Chicago were broken into overnight and robbed of designer frames, FOX32 Chicago reported. \u2014 Fox News , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Warby Parker, the eyeglass retailer, has also seen its shares plunge 40 percent in recent months, as its once rapid growth has started to slow. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Satisfied for the moment, Mr. Grint turned his attention to picking an eyeglass frame, moving through the store shyly, unassumingly, never asking for help, but also never declining it. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Just as eyeglass lenses can focus near or far, so can the scientists tune a magnetic field. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 3 Mar. 2022"
": a device used to correct defects of vision or to protect the eyes that consists typically of a pair of glass or plastic lenses and the frame by which they are held in place : glasses":[],
"In the last month, bandits stole more than $20,000 in merchandise at a Virginia eyeglass store outside of Washington D.C. \u2014 Adam Shaw, Fox News , 1 June 2022",
"Another man with the condition required multiple eyeglass prescriptions, shifting even between nearsightedness and farsightedness in the span of a day. \u2014 Joe Didonato, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Related Video Warby Parker was one of the original direct-to-consumer brands, but now, the eyeglass -maker\u2019s sales are split about evenly between its more than 140 bricks-and-mortar locations and its online store. \u2014 Charity L. Scott, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
"At one eyeglass store in Alexandria, a man used a hammer to smash glass display cases and the group escaped with Gucci products and a tray of sunglasses worth more than $17,000. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Last week, at least two eyeglass stores in Chicago were broken into overnight and robbed of designer frames, FOX32 Chicago reported. \u2014 Fox News , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Warby Parker, the eyeglass retailer, has also seen its shares plunge 40 percent in recent months, as its once rapid growth has started to slow. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Satisfied for the moment, Mr. Grint turned his attention to picking an eyeglass frame, moving through the store shyly, unassumingly, never asking for help, but also never declining it. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Just as eyeglass lenses can focus near or far, so can the scientists tune a magnetic field. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 3 Mar. 2022"
"For bread, all vanished into an emptiness thirsty as old iron, a plowshare Left in a fallow field for decades beside a snakeskin wound through the eyehole Of a steer\u2019s skull. \u2014 The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Arredondo-Brock\u2019s piece really opens up when one looks inside the eyeholes of the mask and sees a stream of words in the form of thought bubbles that have been created inside. \u2014 Darryl Ratcliff, Dallas News , 27 Jan. 2020",
"Will Cousin Greg throw up out of the eyeholes of a children\u2019s costume again? \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 25 Sep. 2019",
"Cut eyeholes in your pumpkin, and attach plastic eyeballs (available at party supply stores) inside the sockets to give the face a spooky stare. \u2014 Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day , 9 Sep. 2019",
"On the book\u2019s cover, a rabbit residing in the hollow head of a hawk-nosed mannequin-man peers out through an eyehole at dangers that are left unspecified. \u2014 Joel Smith, The New York Review of Books , 18 Apr. 2019",
"To re-create, simply roll out the clay and cut into circles using a cookie cutter or knife. Poke two eyeholes and drape over foam craft balls or ping pong balls to dry. \u2014 Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living , 2 Oct. 2018",
"There is nothing silly about what these women are up to, and yet we are supposed to laugh at the concept of Hendricks in a face mask, her sparkling blue eyes radiating out from the eyeholes . \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Republic , 28 Feb. 2018",
"The soft-foam helmet has black eye inserts shaped like eggs and tilted out so that the bottoms splay outward to keep the eyeholes from falling in on themselves when the sheet is on top. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Popular Mechanics , 26 Feb. 2018"
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"Noun",
"Her eyes slowly became accustomed to the dark.",
"He wears a patch over one eye .",
"I have something in my eye .",
"Only a trained eye can tell the difference between the original painting and a good copy.",
"For decorating, they rely on her discerning eye .",
"He has an artist's eye for color.",
"He reviewed the proposal with a jaundiced eye .",
"The biographer cast a cold eye on the artist's life.",
"Verb",
"I saw someone eyeing me from across the street.",
"a lot of his backyard bird watching was spent eyeing the squirrels as they depleted the bird feeder of seeds",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"What eye can trace them, in their varied wanton amorous chaces, bounding and fluttering on the odiferous air! \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"The five sessions have revealed a storyteller's eye , with focus, clarity, a ... \u2014 David Bauder, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"Colorful Mario Kart landscapes careen through the mind\u2019s eye as two adult gamers name-drop their favorite virtual racing courses: Sherbet Land, Choco Mountain, Rainbow Road. \u2014 Celia Wren, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Looking more widely, the minor battery increases to the rest of the range are also eye -opening. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Eva Marcille's beauty look came courtesy makeup artist Terrell Mullin, who created one of the most all-out glamorous eye lash moments of the night. \u2014 Allure Staff, Allure , 26 June 2022",
"For a Saturday morning children\u2019s show, the number of rising stars who passed through Pee-wee\u2019s Playhouse is a marvel \u2014 and indicative of just how developed an eye Paul Reubens had for spotting emerging talent. \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 June 2022",
"The tiny creature was made from a real seashell, doll shoes, a spot of clay and a googly eye . \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, China is spending eye -watering amounts of cash to keep the ideology alive. \u2014 Selina Wang, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Sunshine rules, for the most part, as high temperatures eye a range of low to mid-70s for most of the region. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"To the east, China continues to eye an invasion of Taiwan, which many U.S. officials predict is likely by 2027. \u2014 Roger Wicker, National Review , 18 Feb. 2022",
"These are major decisions for Key as England desperately eye a turnaround in what has been a rather feeble recent Test chapter. \u2014 Tristan Lavalette, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Key senators eye new, more ambitious legislation to lower insulin prices. \u2014 Nicholas Florko, STAT , 9 Apr. 2022",
"In the meantime, the rush to create SPACs has evaporated as investors eye a crowded field and regulators take a harder line. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 1 Apr. 2022",
"At the conference, junior scholars would nervously eye one another in the elevators, trying to figure out who might be headed to which suite. \u2014 Jacob Brogan, Washington Post , 14 Mar. 2022",
"While American oil and gas companies eye new opportunities in Europe, German lawmakers want to accelerate the transition to wind and solar. \u2014 Leah Garden, The New Republic , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Dedinkin tells us that the tag sale stopped just as Stalin\u2019s money men began to eye the Morozov things. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a(1)":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"Middle English, from Old English \u0113age ; akin to Old High German ouga eye, Latin oculus , Greek \u014dps eye, face, Sanskrit ak\u1e63i eye":"Noun"
"Until the government decided last week that Cairo\u2019s few remaining houseboats were an eyesore and had to be removed. \u2014 Paul Schemm, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"The latest Prep Baseball Report/Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association poll was an eyesore for several Louisville teams that saw their momentum cut short during last week's Louisville Invitational Tournament. \u2014 J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Child playmats found in the general market are a bit of an eyesore . \u2014 Tiffany Leigh, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"To Keyhayova, the makeshift dunk pool was an eyesore . \u2014 Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
"Many people at the time, including myself, were quick to call the notch an eyesore and unbefitting of an Apple product. \u2014 Yoni Heisler, BGR , 25 May 2022",
"Most pool heaters are large and cumbersome, but the EcoSmart Smart Pool has a compact tankless design that won\u2019t be as much of an eyesore in your yard. \u2014 Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics , 19 May 2022",
"Though some might find the keypad a bit of an eyesore , the lock\u2019s housing comes in a variety of sleek finishes, including matte black, polished chrome, satin nickel and Venetian bronze. \u2014 Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping , 10 May 2022",
"For at least 15 years, the three-story home at 103 Earle St. was an eyesore \u2013 a rotted blight in the neighborhood that sits in the city\u2019s northeast end. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 14 May 2022"
": a simple visual organ of pigment or pigmented cells covering a sensory termination : ocellus":[],
": a small pigmented body of various unicellular algae":[],
": a usually small spot of color (as on the wing of a butterfly) that resembles an eye":[],
": any of several fungal diseases of cultivated grasses (such as corn, wheat, and sugarcane) characterized by yellowish oval lesions on the leaves and stem":[]
"The eyespot is studded with light-sensitive proteins called channelrhodopsins. \u2014 Marc Zimmer, The Conversation , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Some of the earliest renditions might have been a simple pit eye, a kind of pit of tissue lined with light receptors, or what scientists call an eyespot , a simple region that detects light. \u2014 Leslie Nemo, Scientific American , 19 May 2021",
"It\u2019s a creepy little critter, with a single, distinctive black eyespot at the head of one to four spines. \u2014 Popular Science , 17 Feb. 2021",
"During two days in October, these break off from the rest of the worm, and using an eyespot within, swim toward the surface\u2014and the light of the moon. \u2014 Douglas Main, National Geographic , 17 Apr. 2019",
"Scientists suspect eyespots first evolved in Jurassic lacewings and then a second time in modern butterflies. \u2014 Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian , 7 June 2019",
"Butterflies use the eyespots on their hindwings not for stealth but to scare away potential predators. \u2014 Carrie Arnold, National Geographic , 21 Dec. 2016",
"Dakin repeated part of Petrie\u2019s eyespot -snipping experiment. \u2014 Susan Milius, WIRED , 27 Apr. 2011"
"The regiment earned renown for leading thousands of men in the July 18, 1863, storming of Fort Wagner, an eyetooth in the jaw of defenses around Charleston Harbor. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Audra\u2019s prodigious knowledge of people\u2019s names, faces and bewildering, often pointless personal details \u2014 that someone recently broke an eyetooth on a bagel, for example \u2014 is an animating force in the book. \u2014 Lydia Kiesling, New York Times , 7 July 2017",
"But what sort of capitalist swine wouldn\u2019t give his eyeteeth for one? \u2014 John Brownlee, WIRED , 16 Nov. 2006"
"He says he'll quit his job, but we know that's just eyewash .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Meanwhile, the Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football leadership positions, has become toothless, modern-day eyewash . \u2014 Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Feb. 2022",
"It was regularly infested with pigeons and other animals (which had to be wrangled out annually), and was outfitted with eyewash stations only in 2018, after numerous requests from various teams. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Sep. 2021",
"The Sox were losing for the 11th time in 14 games, turning a five-game lead into a five-game deficit after giving us nothing more than a little eyewash at the trade deadline. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Aug. 2021",
"In 2010, the farm was fined $305 for repeatedly failing to post that information and for failing to provide workers with an eyewash station when pesticides were being used that could cause irreversible eye damage. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 July 2021",
"Chemical showers and eyewash stations loomed; sometimes, in a distant room, a dot-matrix printer burred. \u2014 Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker , 28 Sep. 2020",
"Gleason Elementary School and Post Elementary will also receive eyewash stations. \u2014 Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle , 10 Mar. 2020",
"Instead, pack along some sterile emergency eyewash . \u2014 Richard Mann, Field & Stream , 18 Feb. 2020",
"San Diego let nine months pass between flushing the eyewash stations. \u2014 Joy Resmovits, latimes.com , 25 Apr. 2018"
