eye-filling
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of eye-filling
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Under gray skies in the downtown core of the region, the snow seemed to reach an eye-filling, big-flaked crescendo around noon.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2023
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
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
Wherever one goes in France among the cities and larger towns the ideas of big and eye-filling perspectives are aimed at by the municipal authorities and architects.
From France by Home, Gordon Cochrane
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