Example sentences for: cross-eyed

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

  • Aural equivalents of these trompes l'oeil are socalled oronyms— trompes l'oreille —which Pinker describes in Language Instinct (New York, 1994, p. 188), citing such examples as, The stuffy nose can lead to problems The stuff he knows...; It's a doggy-dog world It's a dog-eat-dog world; A girl with colitis goes by A girl with kaleidoscope eyes (Beatles' song); Gladly the cross-eyed bear Gladly the cross I'd bear (traditional Christian hymn).

  • Gladly the cross-eyed bear Onward Christian Soldiers, Marching as to War, With the cross-eyed Jesus, Leaning on the phone.

  • We are asked to believe not only that President Clinton (shanghaied by the filmmakers into a notorious cameo) could inspire the nation to spend trillions of dollars on this machine without even a raised eyebrow from George Will, but also that a cross-eyed, homicidal doomsday prophet would be hired to put the finishing touches on it; and that after he sabotages the whole project in the name of Jesus, it would be rebuilt at a secret location on the island of Hokkaido by a zillionaire eccentric who floats around in orbit aboard his own custom-made Mir.

  • This is the same mechanism as is operative in the famous case of the child who heard the hymn “Gladly the cross I'd bear’ and thought the adults were singing about “Gladly, the cross-eyed bear’.


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