How to Use doe-eyed in a Sentence

doe-eyed

adjective

• Why portray Dorothy as a doe-eyed ding-a-ling; as not just naive but dumb?
  — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
• For the best results, do three gentle passes from the base to the tip for a doe-eyed look.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
• Folks took to the comment section of the post and wished the doe-eyed gentleman a very happy birthday.
  — Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Sep. 2025
• One of the women (here to celebrate her husband’s retirement), looked at me doe-eyed.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2025
• Her daughters may have inherited that twinkle in her eye for Hollywood — as well as those doe-eyed good looks.
  — Alison Schwartz, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
• The doe-eyed couple have been headlining over the past couple of weeks since fans speculated they quietly got hitched.
  — Essence, 18 Aug. 2025
• Swift's full bangs offer a grounding point for updos and loose lengths alike, offering an element of doe-eyed softness to each of the singer's hair eras.
  — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 16 Feb. 2026
• This doe-eyed pup would benefit from some leash training, which will help boost her confidence and strengthen the bond between her and her new family.
  — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
• Almost identical in composition, the paintings all depict a young, doe-eyed subject in white robes, instrument in hand and turned slightly away from the viewer.
  — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
• Whereas most guests on With Love, Meghan would respond to a prompt like this with doe-eyed enthusiasm, Daniel simply smirks and shakes his head.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
• The trio of vicars starts with James Norton as Sidney Chambers, the doe-eyed clergyman with a taste for cool jazz and clever women.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
• Her ability to sell the most demented line readings with a doe-eyed smile—and to thrive in the show’s rat-a-tat pacing—gave 30 Rock some of its funniest moments.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2026
• Sullivan gives her a gaze that can shift in an instant from doe-eyed warmth to dead-eyed menace — and physical fluidity with just a hint of mechanical stiffness and killer strength when threatened.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026
• Her big sister Khloé Kardashian, 41, showed her appreciation in the comments section with a series of doe-eyed emojis and love heart emojis.
  — Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
• The specter of war is difficult to reconcile with the carefree bustle of downtown Taipei, where on a cool June evening bickering families and doe-eyed couples throng the city’s night markets as ever before.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
• As Maneesh, the doe-eyed Disney Channel alum Karan Brar exudes depressed decency but never quite taps into the messy turmoil that might complicate the coder’s choices.
  — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
• Joe Alwyn’s take on Agnes’ brother Bartholomew is a slimmer, more doe-eyed one than the extremely tall farmer of few words O’Farrell imagines escorting his sister to London.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 30 Nov. 2025
• The snapshots show Mescal, 29, as a young, doe-eyed Paul McCartney seemingly during a visit to the Cavern Club, the local Liverpool venue where the band played often in their early years.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
• The doe-eyed spa manager, Anupam Banerjee, has come up with a wide range of enticing holistic treatments, from scrubs, massages, and facials; to biohacking PEMF body mats and LED masks; to Ayurvedic therapies; to breath work and meditation.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2026
• Emma Stone Makeup visionary Nina Park crafted a minimal, doe-eyed aesthetic for Emma Stone, featuring an even-toned base, coral blush and a buttery lip courtesy of Louis Vuitton’s Baume Lip Balm in Nude Poetry.
  — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 23 Feb. 2026
• The next year, the doe-eyed Weston was the sister of Sigmund Freud (portrayed by Steven Hill) in A Far Country and in 1962 replaced Betsy von Furstenberg in the cast of the long-running Jean Kerr comedy Mary, Mary, starring Barbara Bel Geddes.
  — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026