How to Use beady in a Sentence

beady

adjective

• His head was slightly turned, with one of his beady eyes glaring at me.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
• The species has beady, dark eyes and powder blue-gray feathers.
  — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 3 May 2026
• The suspect’s eyes are drawn as black and beady, and his left ear is obscured.
  — Jonathan Sperling, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
• His eyes beady, his forehead shiny, and his speech slightly out of sync from his mouth.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• Etch out the eyes, then stick red sewing pins through the center of each to create beady stares.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2023
• Voles are adorably diminutive creatures with big heads, beady eyes, and squat bodies.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2022
• With their beady eyes, thick tails and sharp claws, prairie voles are not exactly cuddly.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• The machine's beady, glowing, hazel eyes could be perceived as off-putting.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 17 June 2026
• Hang one of these from a hook and make all your guests feel like they’re surrounded by beady little eyes.
  — Sunset Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• Paul is a weirdo with beady serial-killer eyes and a lengthy criminal record.
  — Sarah Hagi, The Cut, 20 Oct. 2017
• Like a legless guinea pig or an oversized hamster with no mouth or ears, and beady eyes (stay with me, here).
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
• The large, winged bugs with beady red eyes made their presence known in Maryland over the weekend.
  — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2021
• The two biggest things that jumped out at me were how flat its head was and for such a large animal how beady its eyes are.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
• With his long leathery neck, dull-yellow face and beady eyes, there’s just something about Diego.
  — Aimee Ortiz, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2020
• Your little pet is this ghostly outline with beady eyes prouncing around your living room.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
• Mirror the birds' dead, beady eyes in yours to assert your dominance and protect your snacks.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2019
• His prominent ears contrast noticeably with his beady eyes and thin lips.
  — Ryan Ruby, The New York Review of Books, 8 Aug. 2020
• Fresh in his memory was the Brillo-like fur, the beady eyes, the immense strength.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• The headlights lit up his beady eyes just before he was crunched under the left side of the car, leaving a big dent in the bumper.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Every day, at school, The Witch, with bony hands and beady eyes, worked to dominate us with fear.
  — Naz Riahi, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2020
• The heads of more recent scorpion species are adorned with multiple rows of beady, pinprick eyes.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• His muscular body and small beady eyes are impressive, as are his strange hooded fingers and spiked thumbs.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• Also, with his shiny pate and beady eyes, Harris looked vaguely like a serial killer.
  — Lucinda Rosenfeld, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• With their miniature equine snouts and beady eyes, seahorses look very different than most other fish.
  — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 6 June 2019
• Close the lid and pulse in a series of short bursts, until the mixture looks uniformly beady but does not yet form large clumps of dough.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2021
• In 1994, these young men risked their careers by going after those beady-eyed, blood-thirsty weasels.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 8 Apr. 2017
• The footage reveals what appear to be a pair of small cameras positioned just below the robot’s beady black eyes.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2025
• Near the opposite bank, 300 yards away, three pairs of gray ears flicked, and beady eyes darted above the water line.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
• There’s a felled lion, its paw resting awkwardly, and an elephant without a tusk, its beady eye staring out.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 May 2022
• Pavlovic submitted a sketch that captured the creature’s spooky aesthetic, right down to its beady eyes and the fabric-like swirls of its outfit.
  — Molly Born, Washington Post, 6 May 2021