Example sentences of "eye were like [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | His eyes were like meat-hooks , tearing into her . |
2 | His eyes were like splinters as he glowered down at her , yet in their depths she could see the pain that tormented him . |
3 | The brown hair , the dark brows and , when he took her hand , the open brown depths of her eyes were like molasses drained from white sugar . |
4 | I was twenty-one , I had just come out of Sweden and my eyes were like saucers . |
5 | FitzAlan 's eyes were like daggers , but Isabel faced him unflinchingly . |
6 | When she woke , her eyes were like fires in the depths of the deepest wells . |
7 | He was so near to death that even his eyes were like caves into the underworld . |
8 | He had discovered when reading A Burnt-Out Case the sentence , ‘ The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life ’ . |
9 | The eyes were like flint . |