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Example sentences for "eyes closed"

  • Sight: (Eyes closed) What do you see now?

  • Smell: (Eyes closed) (Pen to nose) Do you smell anything?

  • I heard him approach; he bent over me, for I felt his breath on my face, but I kept my eyes closed, and never moved.

  • I thought to remain thus until I should hear the well-known tramp of my father's horse coming down the stony road, but unconsciously my eyes closed and I fell fast asleep.

  • He lay doubled up on the right side, eyes closed, right hand on pillow.

  • Movements of the legs were performed hesitatingly and slowly and with greater difficulty with eyes closed.

  • Eyes closed, he could with difficulty perform the finger to nose test; eyes open, with much less difficulty.

  • He lay on the bed, eyes closed as if asleep, insensible to excitation, irresponsive.

  • My eyes closed in spite of myself, and with a very tender impulse toward my new friend, I turned on my side and slept.

  • The night he was born I watched the lights of the house next door until my eyes closed of themselves.

  • All through the long ride, I sat huddled in the new furs which were Uncle John's wedding gift to me, my eyes closed, and my hand in John Denton's warm clasp.

  • The one that is asleep should lie in a position so that the countenance can be seen, the head resting on the hand, eyes closed.

  • Her hands are folded on her breast, eyes closed as if in sleep.

  • Frank Mallow's eyes closed slightly, and he gazed in a half-curious, contemptuous way at John Berry as he shook hands, and then turned to Luke Ross.

  • Cynthia's bright young voice broke the spell, and Julia's eyes closed as she backed slowly away for a few yards before she dare turn and run towards her sister.

  • Sage's eyes closed, and there was a pitiful, pained expression in her face that told of the agony of her heart.

  • Howell; but it was long before Edna fully recovered, and then she lay with her eyes closed, and her hands clasped across her forehead.

  • Edna commenced reading, and it was nearly an hour before Felix's eyes closed, and his fingers relaxed their grasp on hers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another connection; being considered; close formation; colonial expansion; eyes came; eyes closed; eyes fixed; eyes flashed; eyes from; eyes narrowed; eyes open; eyes rested; eyes right; eyes upon; eyes were; found here; get possession; hard matter; hear about; nine years; prefix signifying; this cause; three yards; twenty dollars; universal consent; upper tail