1
: having or marked by unsophisticated or uncritical acceptance or admiration : naive
wide-eyed innocence
2
: having the eyes wide open especially with wonder or astonishment
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Examples of wide-eyed in a Sentence
a wide-eyed and trusting child
the sort of phony UFO "artifacts" that wide-eyed tourists fall for
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Rocklin High coach Steve Taylor inserted the then-6-foot-4 Lavrenov into the Thunder’s varsity lineup as a wide-eyed freshman in the fall of 2021.
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Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Some jokes take aim at the state’s power grid, including one image of a wide-eyed chihuahua appearing to have a flashback to the Vietnam War.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
No one would necessarily accuse Curt of being perky and wide-eyed.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
Three weeks earlier, a wide-eyed Johnson was hired as the first general manager of the Denver expansion team.
—Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
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Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Some jokes take aim at the state’s power grid, including one image of a wide-eyed chihuahua appearing to have a flashback to the Vietnam War.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
No one would necessarily accuse Curt of being perky and wide-eyed.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
Three weeks earlier, a wide-eyed Johnson was hired as the first general manager of the Denver expansion team.
—Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for wide-eyed
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“Wide-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wide-eyed. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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