How to Use glassy-eyed in a Sentence

glassy-eyed

adjective

• When the curtain went up, Valencia spent the first several minutes overcome by emotion, glassy-eyed and weeping.
  — Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
• The crowd was enthusiastic and somewhat glassy-eyed, and people lined up patiently to buy records and merchandise, and to get a chance to meet Rashad.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
• Now, rather than entertaining a group of a dozen or so glassy-eyed onlookers at Lawrence’s, Marty was performing for packed stadiums.
  — Julien Levy, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2025
• Whole Fried Fish at Bong The fish—dorade, on my visits—arrives intact, glassy-eyed and gorgeous, its skin scored into diamonds and crispy as the top of a crème brûlée.
  — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
• There were plenty of glassy-eyed, thousand-yard stares in the visitors locker room at American Airlines Center after the Colorado Avalanche yielded a two-goal lead in the final 13 minutes in a 4-2 loss to the rival Stars.
  — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025