Scoping out

Usage examples of eyeballing.

She talked incessantly, hardly looking at what she did, eyeballing the pour, spritzing soda or water from the bar hose.

He leans against a shop front, massaging his forehead and eyeballing a display of antique brass doorknockers.

The MiG he'd been eyeballing for Tombstone jinked hard to the left, falling away in a barrel roll as the Sparrow missile streaked toward it.

A Manx cat sat guard at one of the other windows, eyeballing him suspiciously, not moving a whisker.

I don't want anyone getting his or her jollies by eyeballing my naughty bits.

Every ring, bell, and bracelet had been removed from her extremities, and her eyes, which resembled shot glasses of warm Hershey syrup, were given over to ansoopia, which is to say, were rolled almost violently upward (think of the heavenward eyeballings of first-time sinners or the traumatic posturing of El Greco saints).

But us two space cadets are doing this by eyeballing it, using Tennessee windage, an aerospace almanac, a Mickey Mouse watch, and an SR-50 Pop discarded years ago.

But us two space cadets are doing this by eyeballing it, using Tennessee windage, an aerospace almanac, a Mickey Mouse watch, and an SR - 50 Pop discarded years ago.