How to Use wild-eyed in a Sentence

wild-eyed

adjective

• Back on the ground, Emerald was wild-eyed with adrenaline.
  — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• Paramount execs are said to be wild-eyed at the prospect of moving to red-state America.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
• Similarly, one or two wild-eyed acolytes can get a movie nominated.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
• Malek, wild-eyed as ever, portrays Kelley as an overconfident opportunist who is more than willing to cross lines to gain Goering’s trust.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2025
• Their unvarnished alt-rock was led by wild-eyed singer Matt Shultz, a human rubber band who exhausted himself despite his vocals disappearing into the strong breeze.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
• Volatile, headstrong, and brimming with wild-eyed passive-aggression, the actor’s performance heightens the wall situation from a neighborly dispute to the stuff of a biblical trial.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
• An adaptive suspension offers an especially broad spectrum between GT-style comfort and, in its full Corsa mode, wild-eyed performance.
  — Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2025
• When the full-time whistle blew at the Alinma Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Matthias Jaissle was wild-eyed.
  — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• Not particularly, and especially not when compared to the proud tradition of female Ghostfaces who came before her, all of whom reach a level of wild-eyed rage and desperation that Quinn never really approaches.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
• As in Robinson’s other works, what elevates them from amusing to sublime is the way they’re performed, often by unfamiliar but wonderfully offbeat character actors — through overly broad smiles, wild-eyed smirks, strange pronunciations.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
• His Murphy is a complete 180 from that wild-eyed take on the abolitionist John Brown, not to mention a fine addition to the canon of good men who find themselves in bad company and have to navigate, pivot, and play along accordingly.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
• Albert Collins Known as The Master Of The Telecaster, Albert Collins was both blues legend and wild-eyed showman, picking out licks on his 1966 Custom Tele, usually in an open tuning, with a capo on the neck.
  — New Atlas, 30 May 2026
• One of Al Pacino’s finest performances of the 1970s — which, with the Godfather films and Serpico, is an absurd hot hand — is as the enigmatic, wild-eyed Sonny, a man who performs a desperate bank robbery with his partner (the late John Cazale, by turns heartbreakingly clueless and dopily funny).
  — Christina Newland, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
• Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 historical fiction novel, the film follows playwright William Shakespeare (Mescal) and his wild-eyed wife, Agnes (Buckley), whose relationship is splintered by the tragic loss of their young son, Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe).
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025