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eye-filling

American  
[ahy-fil-ing] / ˈaɪˌfɪl ɪŋ /

adjective

  1. attractive to the eye; providing an eyeful.


Etymology

Origin of eye-filling

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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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

David Korins’s main sets — three incarnations of the Maitlands’ house as it passes from their hands, to the interlopers’ and finally to Beetlejuice’s — are suitably eye-filling.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2018

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

The exterior, with its sheets of perforated, biomorphic white cladding — the color and texture of gefilte fish — is eye-filling but unmagical, though there are nice touches inside.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2015

Mrs. Jordan—her face irradiated with satisfaction—was acknowledging the plaudits of the villagers, who shouted more or less in proportion to the eye-filling properties of the departing guests.

From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona