Explore Eyeball through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like orb or capsule. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Eyeball meaning
- The ball of the eye.
- An instance of eyeballing something.
- Surveillance.
Using Eyeball
- The main meaning on this page is: The ball of the eye. | An instance of eyeballing something. | Surveillance.
- Useful related words include: orb, capsule, eye, look.
- In the example corpus, eyeball often appears in combinations such as: the eyeball, eyeball to, to eyeball.
Context around Eyeball
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Eyeball
- In this selection, "eyeball" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, see, gummy, ruptured, test, confrontation and songwriting stand out and add context to how "eyeball" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a gummy eyeball to kids and a ruptured eyeball. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "eyeball" sits close to words such as abington, abled and adorno, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with eyeball
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I do a lot of enucleations, which is eyeball removals. (10 words)
Like Mahomes, his rival quarterback Brock Purdy doesn’t pass the eyeball test. (13 words)
It not like when you’re eyeball to eyeball with someone on the ground. (14 words)
Aided by his companions – Medama-Oyaji, his eyeball father; Neko-Musume, a cat-girl; and Nezumi-Otoko, a rat-man – Kitaro strives to restore balance, urging the yokai to remind themselves of the importance of peaceful coexistence with the human race. (41 words)
Besides the “eyeball test,” he said that he also knew from experience: He had been wearing a Swiss-style waterproof Wittnauer watch when he swam ashore to save his life, and his swim had taken him approximately one hour. (39 words)
At Gardner Village’s WitchFest last weekend, they served root beer and other nonalcoholic beverages, including the Hocus Pocus Potion — garnished with a gummy eyeball — to kids wearing witch hats. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
General Sundarji had mobilised the forces in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with the Chinese despite reservations from the political leadership.
Muslims and Christians do not see eyeball to eyeball while at the same time contending with intra-religious quarrels.
It not like when you’re eyeball to eyeball with someone on the ground.
Whether it is controlling piracy or use of sea resources, boats of the two countries face each other eyeball-to-eyeball.
In a sense, it is eyeball-to-eyeball on border security and immigration, and who blinks first could very well be determined by the midterm elections.
It even sounds like something that might have come from an eyeball-to-eyeball songwriting session with Lennon.
At Gardner Village’s WitchFest last weekend, they served root beer and other nonalcoholic beverages, including the Hocus Pocus Potion — garnished with a gummy eyeball — to kids wearing witch hats.
Conjunctivitis, or pink eye, is a general term that means inflammation of the conjunctiva — the mucus membrane that lines the skin around your eyeball.
I look at that dressing room and try to think what player would walk up to him to eyeball him to put him in his place.
Pink eye is an inflammation or infection of the outer membrane of one's eyeball and its inner eyelid.
The device currently in use at the centre needs to touch the eyeball, the new device will use air.
The siblings were extremely underweight, struggling to breathe, and Snuffles had a ruptured eyeball.
Aided by his companions – Medama-Oyaji, his eyeball father; Neko-Musume, a cat-girl; and Nezumi-Otoko, a rat-man – Kitaro strives to restore balance, urging the yokai to remind themselves of the importance of peaceful coexistence with the human race.
And the injury was so severe, it could have led to a loss of movement in his eyeball muscles.
Another: Frankenfield’s detail shot of the eyeball-like windows on the new Populous Building on Colfax Avenue downtown.
Besides the “eyeball test,” he said that he also knew from experience: He had been wearing a Swiss-style waterproof Wittnauer watch when he swam ashore to save his life, and his swim had taken him approximately one hour.
But for a lot of people, the idea of scanning your face or eyeball or fingerprint to open a bank account or get a car loan evokes an ick factor.
I do a lot of enucleations, which is eyeball removals.
Like Mahomes, his rival quarterback Brock Purdy doesn’t pass the eyeball test.
Over the weekend, she took to Instagram to spill the beans on her latest eyeball colour-up.
Common combinations with eyeball
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the eyeball 13×
- eyeball to 5×
- to eyeball 4×
- his eyeball 4×
- your eyeball 3×
- eyeball and 3×
- eyeball test 3×
- eyeball the 2×
- eyeball or 2×
- an eyeball 2×