eye-filling
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of eye-filling
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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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
David Korins’s main sets — three incarnations of the Maitlands’ house as it passes from their hands, to the interlopers’ and finally to Beetlejuice’s — are suitably eye-filling.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2018
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
This book is, like Knievel’s life, slick, pulpy, eye-filling, exhaust-belching and in the end a bit boorish and irksome.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2011
Still maintaining a slight and dwindling speed toward Earth, her bow swung from that planet's eye-filling panorama and came to face, instead, the invisible asteroid.
From The Passing of Ku Sui by Gilmore, Anthony
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