How to Use wide-eyed in a Sentence

wide-eyed

adjective

• Nacua, 22, saw his younger self in the wide-eyed teenage players.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Beneath the surface of wide-eyed smiles and laughs lies a steely resolve.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024
• Trump had such goodwill and faced an arena filled with wide-eyed worshipers.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
• This one’s less wide-eyed and heartbroken and surprised and sad.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
• At the mosque in Homs, the man’s sons—wide-eyed, barefoot—tried to mimic him.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Few crowds ooze wide-eyed fear like New Englanders.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
• As if the wide-eyed innocent who arrived here has been hardened.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
• Jamilah watched from the stands, too young to be in the show but wide-eyed at the thought of being out there one day.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
• Thankfully, most of them are looking a little wide-eyed as well.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
• Wolff, with her blond bob and easy warmth, is usually in the thick of a phalanx of wide-eyed young fans.
  — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2026
• The move sparked a some wide-eyed responses from the audience.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
• In the scene, Whitney looks wide-eyed and shocked like many of the other women.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2024
• The night watchman stokes his lamp and walks wide-eyed tourists through the back lanes telling stories of hot oil and great plagues.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• Amazon has a 40-piece set of wide-eyed needles for easy threading.
  — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2024
• That’s a fantasy as wide-eyed and naïve as Shucked’s own hero, Maizy.
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• In another scene, Matt stares wide-eyed on the set of one of the studio’s films.
  — Jp Mangalindan, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
• Streep, however, still remains wide-eyed at the love for the franchise.
  — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2026
• Rebecca’s hands stilled, and the girl stared at her grandmother, wide-eyed.
  — Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026
• This is a youthful, wide-eyed approach to Parker and to the story at large.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
• Of course, much of this was lost on me as a wide-eyed freshman adjusting to my new surroundings.
  — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026
• Not my friends, who shook their heads at my schedule, wide-eyed and overwhelmed at the thought of doing it themselves.
  — Taylor Tomlinson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026
• In the artwork, Cyrus is captured wide-eyed and wild-haired in a blue fur coat against a grey background.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
• Teammate Jordan Chiles watched wide-eyed from the floor, cheering her on.
  — Candace Buckner, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• In the now-viral video, the tuxedo cat crawls out from under the bed, wide-eyed and bewildered.
  — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
• Squeezed between us in the bed, my daughter listened wide-eyed to the storm before drifting off to sleep.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 26 June 2025
• Even Ranger’s foster parent was impressed with the fast turnaround the wide-eyed cat made.
  — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2025
• His mom so graciously gave us—two wide-eyed 11-year-olds—the reins to plan and curate our own menu.
  — Emily Bloch, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
• At 27, Ebeling had a wide-eyed, high-energy way about him.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
• Paramedics lifted the tiny, wide-eyed child out of his wheelchair and onto a gurney that dwarfed him even further.
  — Ana Ley, New York Times, 5 May 2024
• In the snap, the wide-eyed infant looked at his father with wonder while wearing a green and white striped onesie.
  — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023