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Example sentences for "closed eyes"

  • He lay back, watching his fair relative as she sat sewing near, with lazy, half-closed eyes.

  • He lay back among the pillows with closed eyes, utterly exhausted, but looking very happy.

  • He sat down with a sigh of relief, and stretched first one leg and then the other, and leaned back with half-closed eyes.

  • She looked around the room with her half-closed eyes, and pronounced, in her customary soundless whisper: "Wo ist Meir?

  • She was smiling her little, curious intimate smile, with half-closed eyes.

  • As he tried to describe it, she listened with half-closed eyes.

  • Madame Fleury sat with half-closed eyes, looking into the fire.

  • Night after night Clara sat with half-closed eyes, hearing his wooden voice, as in a dream, and wondering how all would end.

  • For a long time he did not move, but remained in his place, with half-closed eyes, apparently ruminating upon the past conversation.

  • The Carlton seems rather a favourite resort of yours," she continued, watching him through half-closed eyes.

  • Hugh watched him through half-closed eyes, and eliminated him from the competition.

  • A shrub was shaking a few yards away, and on it Hugh fixed his half-closed eyes.

  • I told you he was a big man, Captain," remarked the American, leaning back in his chair and looking at the open book through half-closed eyes.

  • After she had spoken, she looked at him with half-closed eyes for a while, but he stared stonily at the trunk of the tree beside his hand.

  • Her head lay on the cushions now, and she watched him with half-closed eyes in the soft light, and now and then the thin embroideries that covered her neck and bosom rose and fell with a long, satisfied sigh.

  • He lay there, speechless, with half-closed eyes, and water and palm oil soaking from him.

  • His comrade looked at him with half-closed eyes.

  • The latter looked up at him with half-closed eyes.

  • The American's face grew a trifle grim, and he looked at him with half-closed eyes.

  • Clotilde, attitudinising before the glass, and admiring herself with half-closed eyes.

  • The girl flashed up for a moment with anger, but only to lie back the next instant faint and with half-closed eyes.

  • She did not speak, and lay with half-closed eyes, seeming to have forgotten him.

  • The stranger lit one cigar from the end of another, and puffed and listened with half-closed eyes.

  • His sallow cheek had turned a shade paler, and his brows hung threateningly over his half-closed eyes.

  • He leaned back with half-closed eyes, his untouched cup in his hand.

  • Helen, languidly, as she lay back in a cane chair listlessly gazing through her half-closed eyes at the glittering water that foamed astern, ever widening away from the churning of the huge propeller of the ship.

  • In another corner Mrs. Decie, with half-closed eyes, was running her finger-tips across her brow.

  • Lying back on her pillows, she was breathing quickly with half-closed eyes.

  • He looked through half-closed eyes at the men in the room, seeing them in distorted white lights and reddish shadows.

  • Chrisfield lay looking at the gaunt outline of Andrews's face against the light through half-closed eyes.

  • The man held out a gold watch, looking suspiciously at Chrisfield all the while through half-closed eyes.

  • There was a merry twinkle in the guide's half-closed eyes.

  • Then, with a sharp squint through his half-closed eyes, and dropping his voice to a confidential note, "How much money you got?

  • Kollomietzev nodded his head twice in an off-hand manner without looking at Solomin, but the latter looked at him and there was a sinister gleam in his half-closed eyes.

  • He merely gazed around the room with his bright though half-closed eyes.

  • Valentina Mihailovna looked at Paklin again, this time with half-closed eyes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "closed eyes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    admit that; another life; bosom friend; closed circuit; closed eyes; closed shop; closed system; closed the; closed vessel; east corner; first loved; gold pieces; has never; instruction publique; longer afraid; look mighty; measuring time; penny post; provincial council; secondary consideration; stood very; taking away; term used; thirty miles; thorough knowledge; world order