Example sentences for: bug-eyed

How can you use “bug-eyed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If watching the bug-eyed and irritable Fiennes wrestle with this nonissue for 90 minutes sounds like fun to you, then don't hold back on my account.

  • They range from crudely bug-eyed pickaninnies eating watermelon--their vacant grins echoed by the great smile of the rind--to almost idealized sculpted heads of black children.

  • It doesn't help that the waxen, bug-eyed Dafoe inhabits a different universe from the other actors, an effect that Schrader intended but that would have worked better with someone else--Dafoe always acts as if he has beamed down from a Martian theater troupe.

  • The properly dressed spaceman (Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1942) must have a space suit (from the pulp Science Wonder Stories, 1929) for his rendezvous with the aliens, of whom many are BEMs (bug-eyed monsters) or LGM (little green men).

  • All day, this gangling, bug-eyed oddball plays Scriabin on his grand piano while Shandurai dusts, vacuums, sews, irons, and launders.


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