How To Use Wide-eyed In A Sentence

A world before which one has to relearn how to look, with the large wide-eyed gaze of a wonderstruck child.
Innocent blondes, corrupted by wolfish brunettes with mannish haircuts and tight, tight sweaters, stare wide-eyed at the reader.
I was an eleven-year-old, wide-eyed gremmie and being at the event was like being in surf puppy heaven. Transworld Surf» | Transworld Surf
A wide-eyed innocent, he longs to captain his own vessel and wed his true love, Mercedes.
A surreal, oddly sinister classic, this expertly mixes a cruel and satiric sense of humour with wide-eyed wonder.

A passing secretary stopped short, clutching her steno pad to her chest, staring wide-eyed at him.
Artist-film-maker Miranda July's wide-eyed kooky persona has never been more painfully self-regarding than it is in her drivelsome relationship break-up fantasy The Future. Berlin film festival – review
Wide-eyed youngsters watched as dozens of fireworks exploded in a shower of colour to kick-off the celebrations with a bang.
Wide-eyed, he crested the ridge and began to walk down into the valley.
He sat and listened attentively, supplying her with the occasional wide-eyed stare or gasp.
On Late Night tonight, he got all wide-eyed and fluttery over a still-ailing Kristen Stewart, who was making the last stop on her New Moon publicity tour. Kristen Stewart on Fallon: 'Jimmy! Move out of the way so we can see Kristen!' | EW.com
She watched wide-eyed as the man turned back toward her, leaned against the door frame.
It's a little disconcerting hearing the wide-eyed troubadour so distraught, but if it's any consolation, the emotional intensity of his folksy confessionals and heartfelt power-pop nuggets have been jacked up considerably.
Once, after inveigling my way, wide-eyed, into the great man's company, I asked him how a man who was as emaciated as he was found the energy to fight as he did.
Far from being tempted to doze at the wheel, they emerged from their vehicles wide-eyed and all shook up.
Imagine E.T. come to life as a human, all wide-eyed and small-mouthed, head and feet too big for his body.
Every New Yorker is forgiven for acting like a wide-eyed tourist for at least a couple months per year, and I take my pardon and run with it…
The slim volume is illustrated with photographs of Bainbridge as a wide-eyed ingenue.
The previous night's memorable madness in Apartment 15B rushes back to the young man along with the nauseating odor of upchuck, but he plays it cool, acting the wide-eyed innocent who doesn't have a clue.
These are songs they sing with such wide-eyed innocence that it sounds childishly naughty.
The majority of tears that were shed on first day at school day in Kerry on Monday flowed from the eyes of lonesome mums rather than wide-eyed children who were eagerly looking forward to the great new adventure.
Hannah assumed her position in front of the choir, and looked over at Mr. Wyden with wide-eyed fear.
Neither, although his comics have brought him a certain degree of wide-eyed adulation, is he any kind of superhero.
Do wide-eyed young men still exist? Times, Sunday Times
Ethical implications aside, his lectures were generously garnished with anecdotes that held his wide-eyed freshmen audience in rapt attention. Is Yawning Uncontrollable and Contagious? | Impact Lab
When do they lose this wide-eyed innocence? Times, Sunday Times
The government is all wide-eyed innocence when asked about this. Times, Sunday Times
The show's power, though, came from the unending tango between the socially aspirant Harold, desperate to escape the ancestral pigsty, marry a nice girl and eat with matching knives and forks; and the calculating old man clinging on, needy and wheedling, that feral gurn switching between rabid contempt and wide-eyed horror of loneliness. Who's the daddy?: the greatest sitcom fathers
This was the Golden Age of sports, and McMahon was exposed to it all as an Irish moppet, wide-eyed by it all in the excitement of smoke-filled arenas.
The big moment arrived, as Santa was heralded into the room and conducted a sing-along with all the expectant wide-eyed crowd.
Because I wanted to write much-acclaimed, tear-jerkingly purple prose about wide-eyed, fly-infested children — not cold, unpopular and even “racist” accusations about African male culpability. Writing what I should have written so many years ago « Isegoria
Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world.
Darby has the wide-eyed, infectious humour of an overgrown schoolboy.
The little boy looked at his mother wide-eyed and said, "Wow.
I marvel at how many assumptions you make about my wide-eyedness, my age, what degree of other research I may have already done. Page 2
With the advent of Jewish Emancipation, when ghetto walls crumble and the shtetlach begin to dissolve, Jewry-like some wide-eyed anthropologist-enters upon a strange world, to explore a strange people observing a strange halakah They examine this world in dismay, with wonder, anger, and punitive objectivity. Indymedia Ireland
The villagers are wide-eyed with superstition, and crucifixes are plastered everywhere.
A wide-eyed innocent, Matthew is initially the lamb to the slaughter as he falls under the spell of the beguiling Isabelle.
She gawked unabashedly at the passing scenery, then stared wide-eyed as the car came to a halt in the shadow of the huge home.
To her father's disgust she bought them both, and presented them to two wide-eyed children who in bashful fascination were dogging their footsteps. Jerry Junior
For all the horrors you hear about Congress's poisoned atmosphere—its paralysis, its subbasement approval ratings—the handsome marble hallways, filled with American flags, still gleam; wide-eyed constituents still travel them; and it's still hard not to find yourself with something resembling a lump in your throat. A Pillar of Democracy
They freeze, lapse into a wide-eyed silence, then warily continue their conversation.
Kutcher is wide-eyed, mouth hanging open, for the entire film.
But our friendship was deep: he needed help with homework and someone to listen to his tumultuous life; I was a wide-eyed A-student who wanted to right the world, one boy at a time. Ginger Emas: Are You Still Dating Your Ex?
She is aided by mistress of novices and wrestling coach Sister Acacius (Julie Halston), currently besieged by a wide-eyed postulant with healing powers (Amy Rutberg), appropriately named Agnes, and a sinister new arrival Sister Walburga (Alison Fraser), a cartoon-evil German from the "mother house in Berlin. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Divine Sister, The Screwtape Letters, Freckleface Strawberry
I can fully understand the longing every parent must feel to build their first snowman for their wide-eyed kiddies as they see snow for the first time.
Children imagine monsters, wide-eyed fairies, flying pigs and sled-pulling, night-riding reindeer; they see connections and meaning where well-conditioned and socialized adults only see concrete effects and numbers. Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: How to Turn Magical Thinking Into Healing Magic
A wide-eyed little girl hopped into Santa's lap.
Eddie is an innocent, naïve and wide-eyed security guard inadvertently caught up in Gary and Frank's plans.
As it came near he quickly lowered the camera and directed a wide-eyed stare, straight at the big cat.
She seemed surprised to have been passed the ball so quickly, but she gamely smiled and glanced around at the wide-eyed students. A Stitch Before Dying
Her wide-eyed innocence and a remarkable number of overcoats help her through her poorly written role.
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The little boy booked at his mother wide-eyed and said:"Wow!
Sun Mar 22, 2009 at 09: 59: 47 AM EDT wrote this morning what could generously be described as a cursory look at the Indiana Toll Road, hesitating just long enough from a wide-eyed respect of Gov. Blue Indiana - Front Page
A loud scream awoke me from my sleep and I sat bolt upright, staring around in wide-eyed confusion.
In the seventh round, Leonard did 3 minutes of taunting, offering his wide-eyed face as a stationary target, throwing a jab while windmilling his right arm, a hip shimmy here, an Ali shuffle there.
Gone are the wide-eyed kids performing unlikely miracles; enter the spiteful pre-teens who are more than eager to cross swords, and wands, with older muggles and magicians alike.
If not, what is the proportion of those who are in the know andany wide-eyed innocents who are still not in the loop? Here and Hereafter
Innocent blondes, corrupted by wolfish brunettes with mannish haircuts and tight, tight sweaters, stare wide-eyed at the reader.
Eddie is an innocent, naïve and wide-eyed security guard inadvertently caught up in Gary and Frank's plans.
At this angle, in the uncertain light, he resembled an eighty-year-old man, wide-eyed with fear.
Its hero is a man of silent morality from a different era, wide-eyed, soft-hearted and out of place.
I looked at him wide-eyed, my thoughts still hazy from confusion.
Raf was staring at her, wide-eyed, trying to absorb the com - plicated instructions. Time of the Twins
Walter chuckled and continued to walk, and Edie padded along with him, wide-eyed in amazement.
News at Eleven: Thomas Hardy remembers sitting with other children by the fireside at midnight, listening wide-eyed to the adults tell them that the animals are kneeling now in their "strawy pen. News at Eleven: [Thomas Hardy] remembers sitting
She stares that wide-eyed stare of hers, an almost blind stare, and jogs on to the court.
The tone of wide-eyed innocence is either refreshing or deeply cynical. The Sun
Myst stared in wide-eyed wonder at the open blue sky and the wind cutting through the tall grasses.
The blood of the small, impressionable Alison had curdled as she listened wide-eyed, and the words had stuck. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
There was a sound so real, a thud and a subsequent hum, the whole panel vibrating, that the boys and girls went slack in their seats, wide-eyed and semiliquid. Underworld
Her wide-eyed innocence soon exposes the pretensions of the art world.
He shivered at the thought of unluckily striking one, the animal's wide-eyed pain. THE LAST RAVEN
In Monsoon they appear as wide-eyed, god-like creatures dressed in yellow oilskins with water-filled pipes attached.
Edmond hurried from belowdecks, smoothing his black uniform, then paused, wide-eyed, as he took in the situation. Etched in Bone
Mir whispered, wide-eyed at the profanity of it. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
They can ventriloquize as anthropologists, report as journalists; they can confess, philosophize, they can leer as pornographers, or become as wide-eyed as children. Notes on the History of Fiction
Wide-eyed and goosebumped, my sister and I looked at each other and then promptly accused one another of pushing the planchette from letter to letter. Varla Ventura: Paranormal Parlor Games
Here, the wide-eyed innocent must wise up quickly or else they will get strangled, shanked or shot.
To stand naked and wide-eyed before this blazing light is to open oneself to all the pain in the universe. The Broken God
I was frozen against that wall, staring at her, wide-eyed and overwhelmed.
A wide-eyed innocent, Matthew is initially the lamb to the slaughter as he falls under the spell of the beguiling Isabelle.
He clung close to his father's arm, gazing wide-eyed around him all the while.
This is the kind of show that has you blathering like a wide-eyed teenage keener for weeks afterwards.
For example:"When the curtain went up, Roger stared at the performers in wide-eyed amazement, " or "The wide-eyed children looked on as the ringmaster put his head in the lion's mouth.
He has a kind of winsome smile and frequently jogs around the set, running from one side of the lawn to the other, and it doesn't feel like the obnoxiousness of a fidgety adult but the buoyancy of a wide-eyed kid. The House Next Door
I carefully looked over my shoulder expecting to be greeted with a wide-eyed grimace of sheer white-knuckled terror.
The display of matchstick models (including Chartres cathedral in 65,000 matches) instils wide-eyed humility.
Yet United are hardly wide-eyed innocents. The Sun
An accomplished calf-roper who competed in rodeos and worked on his family's California cattle farm, Mr. Pascoe exudes a down-home, wide-eyed excitement his teammates can't help but take to. Giants Have One Bear of a Back
He stood there wide-eyed at the appalling scene.
Exclusive Some start-ups are comprised of wide-eyed wheelers and dealers with little technical expertise.
The tradition has grown and someday will expand even further, with our grandchildren standing around the tree with wide-eyed anticipation, watching as their fathers take down their envelopes.
She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom. Anne of Green Gables
The funniest bit, though, is the wide-eyed wonder with which the word 'umbel' is introduced and discussed. Garden Rant
Unbelieving, wide-eyed tourists pressed their noses up to the cage to get a better look.
Some four decades back, he had been the kind of wide-eyed teenager who thought one could volunteer for the KGB, who had believed the cloak-and-dagger stories, only to find in the organs he had romanticized an atavistic bureaucracy staffed by anti-Semites, paper pushers, careerists, and more than a few sadists. The Return
Boy, get out of the room while ye have the chance, " she called huskily, staring wide-eyed at the snake while continuing to back toward her own bedroom. For Love Of Mother Not
And as a dazzling display of fireworks fizzed and crackled in the night sky, a theatrical snow storm added an instant touch of winter to the delight of hundreds of wide-eyed youngsters.
Better than a dozen of these 19th-century speed machines, presumably un-doped, are then released to blast wide-eyed around the mile-and-quarter track, kicking up a rooster tail of dirt and dust as froth spews from their bitted jaws and their jockey's goggles become pasted with crud. Matthew DeBord: The Kentucky Derby: The Most Surreal and Seedy Spectacle in All of Sports
Tall and lithe and wide-eyed, she had leukemia and when her long diaphanous white-blond hair fell out, she tied the most gorgeous silk scarves around her delicate head, sloped bell-bottom pants off her jutting hips, wrapped her bony wrists in loose sheaves of silver bangles. Cancer Is a Bitch « Happy Healthy Hip Parenting
Dozens of wide-eyed fishermen have called to share stories of giant catfish or gar taken from local bayous, golf-course ponds and neighborhood lakes.
Maguire's dippy smile and wide-eyed, otherworldly quality - changes of expression seem to form in remarkable slow-motion on his face - work just as well here as in The Ice Storm and Pleasantville.
On Saturday, though, the wide-eyed baby looked around the ward inquisitively and became captivated with a journalist who was taking his picture. Malnourished Somali baby thriving as rare success
Zorba, wide-eyed, spit out Vlad's johnson and yawped like a pleurisied guppy. Fifi Climbs To the Top!
Jack had pulled the van up against the curb and was sitting in the passenger seat, his expression anxious, his cell phone in his hand, and a wide-eyed Eerie in his lap. Etched in Bone
This is the place that Kim Clijsters fell in love with as a promising teenager with belting ground strokes and a wide-eyed enthusiasm.
The crisp, cold, unornamental lines of his buildings, their rectilinear counterpointing of wide-eyed windows and bare, blind walls, shocked nobody.
• A still photo from the forthcoming film of The Inbetweeners showed Will, Simon, Neil and Jay wandering wide-eyed in a supposed Cretan party resort. Corrections and clarifications
The doctor asked if they'd put the nausea suppressant in and the nurses, wide-eyed and as scared as me, nodded. BLOOD IS DIRT
Evelyn was corpulent, thick-set, grotesquely charismatic; Laila was flame-haired, wide-eyed, honey-voiced.
While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a wheelchair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button.
The story about the epilation, the hair removal of the anus, is also true," a wide-eyed Audrey Tautou told The Transom with the help of a translator. Jay McInerney's Latest Book Deal
The blood of the small, impressionable Alison had curdled as she listened wide-eyed, and the words had stuck. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Mir whispered, wide-eyed at the profanity of it. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
The girl rejected for her admittedly rather lackluster braiding skills opened her mouth in wide-eyed surprise.
Always the scholar and never the socialite, I adapted to pre-teen activities and the effervescence of wide-eyed, precocious little girls, much to my delight.
At that time, I was still a wide-eyed youngster.
I spent my first night simply walking from one hotel to the next, wide-eyed at the bright lights and excessiveness of it all.
I watched her as she stared at the desk clerk wide-eyed.
Ericka looked back to me in wide-eyed surprise.
At this angle, in the uncertain light, he resembled an eighty-year-old man, wide-eyed with fear.
Its hero is a man of silent morality from a different era, wide-eyed, soft-hearted and out of place.
No, I wasn't either-I knew she was a trollop, and her wide-eyed girlishness was a deliberate mockery. Isabelle
They express their anger by destroying their own lives and thereby hurting others, while seeming to be wide-eyed and innocent.
I don't think I've seen the cover of any recent magazine aimed at youth that did not involve a scantily clad nymphet staring at the camera, all wide-eyed and pouty-lipped, as if to say, Gee, this is all I know how to do. A Conversation with Libba Bray about A Great and Terrible Beauty
When the President, who had begun his term advocating the rights of gays in the military, came around to supporting the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition for gay and lesbian unions, Dole was wide-eyed. Bill Clinton reportedly told John Kerry to throw gays under the bus during 2004 election. What is he telling Hillary, and is she listening?
She was African-American, middle-aged, wide-eyed.
I've been trying to come up with a term to describe that particular wide-eyed look of false innocence that co-workers flash at you when you approach their desks.
It reminded me of nothing quite so much as one of those slightly deranged, wide-eyed tramps whom you might see standing in the middle of the pavement, reading aloud from a torn-up newspaper after he's gulped down a few too many swigs of meths.
Puzzled looking blokes strain their necks for the dartboard, wide-eyed girls search in vain for the stage.
This, along with a change of stance and voice, is enough to populate the stage with a sadistic nun, a carnival barker, a sleazy dancer and, of course, wide-eyed Francesca.
Unnumbered generations of wide-eyed children have wondered at the enchanted horse, which, by the turning of a peg, in a single day transported the Prince of Persia and his lady love to his distant dominions.
Always the scholar and never the socialite, I adapted to pre-teen activities and the effervescence of wide-eyed, precocious little girls, much to my delight.
All of this helped give the bored-looking Euro-dork behind the counter the impression that Simon was a wide-eyed and bumbling ingenu, something he then compounded by tumbling the Styrofoam cup from the counter and spilling the cappuccino across the floor. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
Once upon a year not that long ago, a young man sat in a pub telling a wide-eyed audience of punters all about his skiing holiday.

How To Use Wide-eyed In A Sentence

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