eye-filling
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of eye-filling
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Under gray skies in the downtown core of the region, the snow seemed to reach an eye-filling, big-flaked crescendo around noon.
From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2023
You can’t help being impressed by this world — an eye-filling blowout zooming at you in Panavision and Dolby.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022
The staging, which involves changing projections that often spread beyond the grandiose theater’s proscenium space helps keep the show eye-filling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2016
This book is, like Knievel’s life, slick, pulpy, eye-filling, exhaust-belching and in the end a bit boorish and irksome.
From New York Times • May 3, 2011
She was proud of him—a goodly, eye-filling figure of a man to any woman; but she no longer felt sorry for him.
From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack
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