[ UK /ˈa‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈaɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. attention to what is seen
    he tried to catch her eye
  2. an area that is approximately central within some larger region
    they were in the eye of the storm
    they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
    it is in the center of town
  3. good discernment (either visually or as if visually)
    he has an artist's eye
    she has an eye for fresh talent
  4. the organ of sight
  5. a small hole or loop (as in a needle)
    the thread wouldn't go through the eye
VERB
  1. look at
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How To Use eye In A Sentence

  • She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
  • The method enhances data recoverability in keyed database records.
  • The baby grows fine hair, fingernails and teeth, and the eyes open and close.
  • Neither of them sugar-coat the ups and down of working in the industry, but they will open your eyes a great deal about the false assumptions that you're making.
  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • He eyed the coming tide with an absorbed attention.
  • Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
  • A lot of people's eyes glaze over if you say you are a feminist.
  • His eyes were fixed on a small house in the middle distance.
  • I often position an athlete in front of a mirror that has grid lines on it, ask them to close their eyes and stand up straight. Muscle Management
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