Example sentences for: one-eyed

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

  • I'd bought a cone of solid sugar and a boxOf tea for the saint himself, a felt-tip penFor his son, the saint-elect, and bubblegumFor a confusion of small fry--the five-year-oldAunt, say, and her seven-year-old nephew.Nothing for the women, of course, the tattooed,One-eyed, moon-faced matron, or her daughterWhose husband had long ago run awayAfter killing their newborn by pouringA bottle of cheap cologne down its throat.This was, after all, our first meeting.

  • Rooms display sacred art, archaeological remains, the original charter of Lagos, holy vestments, and a bizarre collection of creatures, like a science experiment gone bad: an eight-legged goat kid preserved in formaldehyde, a one-eyed sheep, a cat with two faces.

  • Cushing, alas, is gone, but Burton has cast Hammer stalwarts Christopher Lee in a (too brief) cameo as the burgomaster who dispatches Crane to Sleepy Hollow and Michael Gough (also seen as Alfred in the Batman films) as a one-eyed accountant.

  • The large Cyclopean Walls  — huge rough-hewn blocks of granite laid one atop another with extreme precision — are so called because their enemies could not believe that humans could be responsible for the construction and gave the credit to the one-eyed giant of myth.


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