How to Use black eye in a Sentence

black eye

noun
Definition of black eyenext
Synonyms for black eyenext
  • The victim had two black eyes, and her eyes were bloody.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 7 May 2020
  • Baseball was left with a black eye and many fans are left in anger: Screw you.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2020
  • He's also busted his nose, bruised his forehead and had one nasty black eye.
    — Danielle Campoamor, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Perhaps the concussion and black eye should have been a wake-up call to slow down.
    — Malia Griggs, SELF, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Andrade made Namajunas bleed from the nose and gave her a black eye and still came up short.
    — Fox News, 12 July 2020
  • The sight of Ade with black eyes hints she could be destined to turn as evil as the man who is probably her father.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Leucistic animals like the calf have black eyes and hooves with some pigmentation, the park service wrote.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • The boy’s visible black eye and abrasions on his arm prompted a school counselor to contact police, court records show.
    — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Growing up in Queens, Mr. Fava recalls his dad coming home with black eyes.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • And therein lie the lessons in leadership offered by the sorry episode that left the Navy with a public relations black eye.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The outage is another black eye for Robinhood, which caters to young people and is valued at nearly $9 billion.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The department released photos of some of the injuries including one officer with a black eye and another with a burn mark on their neck.
    — USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2020
  • But the players, who were at the core of the cheating that has placed a black eye on the sport and the 2017 World Series team, have been unscathed.
    — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 21 Jan. 2020
  • If an officer comes home with, say, a black eye from an on-duty fight with a suspect, their spouse, rather than freaking out and asking them not to return, needs to take rational steps to understand what happened.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Williams’s black eye was conspicuously in subsequent TV appearances.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The black eye drama heard ‘round the world is, of course, dealt with at the reunion.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The baby had a huge black eye and couldn’t get up or lift her head.
    — Mika Brzezinski, NBC News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Jan and the kids then watched as Gaye was carted off in the back of a squad car with a black eye.
    — Matthew Allan, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Still, the struggle left her with a broken hand and black eye.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 23 June 2024
  • Dalio said the book was a black eye for all journalists.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The result has been a black eye for the Wisconsin DNR and hunters alike.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The older man had a black eye and a bloated face from the beating, Lantz said.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • And Ramos had a black eye that looked to be several days old.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Mike Vellucci had a black eye and bloody nose to prove it.
    — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2022
  • Special teams also got a black eye as the Rams threw a first-down pass on a fake punt.
    — Tom Canavan, courant.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Emma Stone had a black eye at her wedding thanks to a kitchen mishap.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The struggle left Humphries with a black eye and Hickey with a bloodied nose.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 21 Oct. 2020
  • In the next scene, Heather has a black eye — and we’re clearly supposed to wonder who gave it to her.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • During the new set, Reich, 25, flop-sweats across the stage in short shorts and black eye makeup.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • There's nothing like going to bed with a full black eye on and waking up the next day.
    — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 25 Feb. 2022

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