How to Use eye roll in a Sentence

eye roll

noun
  • The thing is, we get drowned in bar tools, accessories, and (eye roll) whiskey stones.
    — G. Clay Whittaker, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The caption of the photo is a series of eye roll emojis.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But more often than not, the sharp tongue and the sly eye roll serve a deeper purpose: survival.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 8 Apr. 2025
  • She will be missed for her epic nerdmance eye rolls, if nothing else.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In truth, the eye roll might have been missed had Mather not been trying to film a video of them together.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Her second jump of 20-1.5 was met with an eye roll and a look of confusion to her coaches.
    — Nikstreng, oregonlive, 28 May 2023
  • The audience, full of eye rolls, struggled to keep from laughing out loud.
    — Scott Howard-Cooper., Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The eye rolls, the attitude, the utter contempt—that’s Ennui, or boredom in French.
    — Rosemary Counter, TIME, 14 June 2024
  • It’s best summed up, students say, as a collective eye roll and a quick jump into the Settings app.
    — Monica Chin, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In walks Plaza and Shannon, scowling at random members of the Salty Club — who return the favor with an eye roll.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The interesting thing was when Ted got in the car, his eye roll turned into, ‘Oh, wait a minute, Mom might have something right here.
    — Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 16 July 2023
  • Many countries chose silence in public and eye rolls in private.
    — Damien Cave, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • In 2024, news about a celebrity beauty brand tends to be met with an audible sigh and an eye roll at Allure HQ.
    — Allure Editors, Allure, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Teachers still get the name wrong during the first week of classes, inducing an eye roll during roll call.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Putting yourself out there and talking about money can still be seen by much of the British aristocracy with an eye roll.
    — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • All the catchphrases from Fleck that might illicit an eye roll here and there have been woven into the fabric of the program.
    — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 25 Mar. 2025
  • In today's age of technology, three-ring binders will likely be met with eye rolls.
    — Jerry Dolinsky, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Their sense of encouragement, which I’d once been tempted to dismiss with an eye roll as over-the-top, became a lifeline.
    — Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Her eye roll, out of his view and into the camera, pierces the screen with the recognition of the misogynous essence of Murray’s pestering and raving.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
  • And while some critics insisted that the 25-year-old singer should not be mimicking such acts in front of her age-diverse crowd – eye roll – her fans couldn’t get enough.
    — Meghan Mahar, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2024
  • So much of her music sounds like the soundtrack to an early-two-thousands teen drama, each line delivered with an eye roll.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
  • His answer was best reflected in the eye roll that preceded his reply.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • An eye roll followed — and made the rounds on social media — before Boone took the ball from the Cortes, who had clearly earned himself an early shower in what became a 9-7 loss to the Red Sox.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
  • Deadpan wit and the ability to intimidate with a single eye roll?
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • This year, Goldman found examples of heart eyes, eye rolls, devil faces, rats, kisses, and nuts mentioned in lawsuits.
    — Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Several pet owners told me that a bit more grace would be nice, too: fewer eye rolls or snide comments, fewer jokes about dying alone.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Yet those factors both feel secondary to the old-fashioned razzle-dazzle Roan dispenses onstage: the eye rolls, the kiss-blowing, the finger guns, the hair-whipping.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Zendaya and her team let the world know that, and Zendaya herself responded to the tabloid report with the meme equivalent of an eye roll on her Instagram Story.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 13 June 2023
  • The responses of her guests are divided between eye rolls and helpful attempts to discourage her toil in the future.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • But this movie’s mostly a three-hander with Brooke, Chris and puppy-cute Zara, who’s got a nice screwball delivery and a very effective, if somewhat overused, eye roll.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024

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