How to Use eye-opener in a Sentence

eye-opener

noun

• The Pitt game was an eye-opener, much like the loss to Oregon was for Ohio State.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
• How about a 140-yard hole-out for an eagle on the third hole for an eye-opener?
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2024
• And Thompson-Robinson might be in for an eye-opener facing Aaron Donald for the first time.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• That audition in that role is a big eye-opener for what Broberg can be going forward, and what the Blues can be with him.
  — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
• The simple act of diligent expense tracking is a big eye-opener.
  — True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
• Oil change For anyone who trusts an employer with their 401(k), here’s an eye-opener.
  — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 24 May 2024
• The loss was an eye-opener for Seminoles fans, many who may have been expecting a repeat of last year’s 13-0 run to the conference crown.
  — The Athletic College Football Staff, The Athletic, 24 Aug. 2024
• Each team scored in Wednesday’s opening 2 minutes and 5 seconds, for a 1-1 eye-opener.
  — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
• That very first meeting was just an eye-opener for me in terms of the colonization of the Inuit in Greenland, how it was done and the systemic tools that were used.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
• Using it, insisted Cross, has been an eye-opener and a game-changer.
  — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
• That song was written to be an eye-opener, so maybe some of your kids or grandkids will feel guilty and go see about grandma or go see about grandpa.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 26 Oct. 2023
• According to Bush Hager, that article was quite the eye-opener for her mother.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2025
• But there is no substitute for experience, so what was the biggest eye-opener about the process?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
• That was an eye-opener for me about how periods are stigmatized.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2024
• Such a change is a jarring, physical eye-opener, and also a crisis of conscience.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2024
• The project has been an eye-opener for Collett and hopes the audience consuming the photo book will have the same experience.
  — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 19 May 2025
• Its inclusion in this show will no doubt be an eye-opener for Smithsonian viewers and, for some of them, a soothing balm.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• The developments this week will have been an eye-opener for William, with the future surely occupying some of his thoughts.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• Cue the Salma — a nice balance of mezcal, fig puree, egg white and black lemon — and Arak in a Hard Place, a vivid orange eye-opener that refreshes with elderflower liqueur and sparkling wine.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• Forty years ago, the intuitive outrage of secondhand smoke was an eye-opener for many Americans.
  — David Zipper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
• Forty years ago, the intuitive outrage of secondhand smoke was an eye-opener for many Americans.
  — David Zipper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
• The findings are quite the eye-opener: one in 10 Amazon customers have been offered incentives like gift cards, refunds and even free products, all in a bid to rack up those golden stars next to products.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2023
• For Stocking, who has been a professional creator for 10 years but has been active on Snap for fewer than eight months, the revenue sharing program has been an eye-opener.
  — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
• One before-breakfast eye-opener turned into two and pretty soon I was pleasantly jingled.
  — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 14 Aug. 2024
• This collection of erudite essays is a rich, revealing eye-opener.
  — Allen Pierleoni -, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• So that was certainly a bit of an eye-opener and that's more of an industry takeaway.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
• As rough as parts of their hometown were, Detroit was an eye-opener.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
• The closeness in my race and the closeness in the president's race last year were real eye-openers.
  — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2025
• His performance at Penn State was a huge eye-opener.
  — Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• But under the hood, there are some other eye-openers.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025