eye-opening
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Assistant warden Tara McEvoy-Wilding said 2026 had been eye-opening and the "brown, sad and crispy" vegetation was a visual reminder of how dry it had been.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
“It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
That “can be an eye-opening experience for folks” who simply think of a home as a savings vehicle, especially in an environment with relatively high interest rates, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Oregon’s Cascade Policy Institute provides an eye-opening brief chronicling Portland’s failed “war on the automobile.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Now, after all this eye-opening experience, and you on your uppers, so to speak, I offered to start you in a lawful business, you won't have it, simply because it smacks of gambling!
From Rockhaven by Charles Clark Munn
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