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View synonyms for eagle-eyed

eagle-eyed

[ ee-guhl-ahyd ]

adjective

  1. having keen vision.


eagle-eyed

adjective

  1. having keen or piercing eyesight


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eagle-eyed1

First recorded in 1595–1605

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Example Sentences

Eagle-eyed Nelson Molina, who has been with the department since 1981, started the whole thing.

Some eagle-eyed fans said they could see both Switzerland and Austria, the two countries that sandwich the tiny monarchy.

The eagle-eyed teacher spied the movement and haled the aggressor to the floor.

The old Indian fighter had that strange sense of proportion, that eagle-eyed view of life that the desert sometimes breeds.

No lounging now; the young man sat arrow-straight and eagle-eyed.

"It isn't a joke, it's earnest," returned the girl, and a warm feeling arose in her heart for the eagle-eyed man in the high hat.

Traces of the fierce, unsociable, eagle-eyed, hard-drinking hunter remained.

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