glaze over

VERB
  1. become glassy; lose clear vision
    Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep
  2. become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
    Her eyes glaze over when she is bored
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How To Use glaze over In A Sentence

  • A lot of people's eyes glaze over if you say you are a feminist.
  • Spoon the glaze over the kiwi fruit.
  • Her eyes widen, then glaze over and then, in what I can only describe as a calm and measured frenzy, she proceeds to test the load-bearing capacity of a standard issue shopping trolley.
  • I know sometimes I drop the act and my eyes glaze over and a droplet of drool trickles from the corner of my mouth.
  • We wouldn't blame you for taking this view; people's eyes tend to glaze over whenever the word "procurement" is used. Vijaya Ramachandran: G20 Endorses Hedging by the World Food Programme
  • His eyes glaze over when he tells me how he got to to this place.
  • Here, my eyes would glaze over as I flash backed to the summer I spent putting little purple microdot tabs of mescaline in my mouth, waiting for that hallucinatory high.
  • Her eyes were already beginning to glaze over, the double eyelids spasming in repeated nictitation. Sliding Scales
  • When I try to explain the boundary layer, laminar flow, turbulent mixing, entropy, and autopsies to them, there eyes just glaze over.
  • Brush the glaze over the top and sides of the hot cake.
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