How to Use starry-eyed in a Sentence

starry-eyed

adjective
  • Neither will starry-eyed dreams of Venezuelan oil profits.
    — Jamie Holmes, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2026
  • This time around, Lily Collins' starry-eyed striver is setting up shop in Rome.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
  • One starry-eyed Minion, though, James, vows to mount a monster movie with real monsters.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Even so, the journey from starry-eyed spectator to industry mainstay was anything but a straight line for the actress.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This ancient practice has been a source of guidance and meaning for people from all walks of life, not just mystics and starry-eyed romantics.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If Moore is the starry-eyed dreamer of Two Wolves, Thomson is the pragmatic rule enforcer.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2018
  • As a result, his vocals have a kind of stately yet starry-eyed quality, giving structure to these deformed, cosmic beats from the internet abyss.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Many excellent books are originally written in English, and yet every day starry-eyed translators add a handful more to the shelves.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • There is a starry-eyed optimism in the gesture that emphasizes the darker manipulations of their relationship.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Then there was the run-up to the 2002 World Cup, which has been cited with increasing frequency — and, yes, starry-eyed hope — in recent months.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Scanning the crowd several times throughout the evening, the only things glowing were the beaming faces of the thousands of starry-eyed McCartney-ites in attendance.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Dec. 2025
  • But Sexistential, released in March, pushes in the opposite direction, toward starry-eyed excess and abandon.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Even amid dismal ratings for the US government overall, views of NASA remain relatively starry-eyed.
    — Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The entire action takes places on a Broadway stage where 17 actors, both starry-eyed newcomers and grizzled stage veterans, are auditioning for one of eight spots on a chorus line of an upcoming musical.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 18 May 2026
  • Jasmine January gives a sweet, starry-eyed performance as Rosemary, the ever-patient secretary who loves Finch despite his indifference to her feelings.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Emery Lehman, who is just 29 but will be competing in his fourth Olympics (1,500, team pursuit) and then doing his own retiring, is quite starry-eyed when talking about Bowe.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Mourinho, the 63-year-old finally living the dream of managing his boyhood club after a rancorous nine-game stint at the start of his coaching career, celebrating with a starry-eyed kid dreaming of being on the pitch for the first team one day.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • It had supposedly been made in the nineteen-forties, for an Italian countess or an English lady, then scrapped, and afterward either smuggled out of the workroom by a starry-eyed seamstress or, with the atelier head’s approval, given to one of the in-house models.
    — Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • According to the report, the starry-eyed CEO wants to build factories to produce fiber-optic cable, data center equipment, and other critical components for AI infrastructure, funded by Japan.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The film’s plot is thrust in motion when a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, watching as a starry-eyed nurse (Cemre Paksoy) becomes entangled with her mysterious patient (Bruce McKenzie).
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Carrie Underwood will once again be seated at the judges’ table, having joined the cast in 2025 when Katy Perry signed off after seven seasons, as starry-eyed hopefuls compete for a $250,000 prize and a chance at a recording contract.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Dimoo, a starry-eyed character imagined by Chinese artist Ayan Deng and turned into figurines by China’s Pop Mart, will be sporting the Swiss jeweler and watchmaker’s Ice Cube designs in limited-edition versions released exclusively in China.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Meanwhile, Prime Video has told us that Season 2 remains at the top of its chart worldwide, as young adults flock to the show, which follows the epic love story between the starry-eyed Ruby (Harriet Herbig-Matten) and privileged James (Damian Hardung) at an elite English private school.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Dec. 2025
  • On Tuesday night, as the NFL world reeled with the Maxx Crosby news and the NBA was starry-eyed at Bam Adebayo’s 83-point game, the rest of us were watching Team Italy embarrass the good ol’ US of A with an 8-6 win in the World Baseball Classic.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026

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