Sentence examples for by eyeballing from inspiring English sources

"by eyeballing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is often used to mean doing something by estimating or guessing, without precise measurements. For example, "He thought he had the measurements right, but it turned out he was off by a few inches - he should have known better than to rely on eyeballing it."

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A draughtsman such as Ingres was compelled to augment his image with information acquired by "eyeballing" the sitter directly.

Maybe you can't judge a book by its cover, but apparently you can come up with a spot-on appraisal just by eyeballing a couple of sentences.

The scientists' final test of Mr. Hockney's theory was to have a realist painter render a chandelier as accurately as he could merely by eyeballing it.

"But it's actually surveilling entire communities, locating behavior that might be suspicious and striking groups of unknown individuals based on video data that may or may not be corroborated by eyeballing it on the ground".

After a few minutes of calculations made by eyeballing the tower and counting its number of floors, my friend concluded that it would be possible to launder as much as a hundred million dollars a year through that tower alone.

Admittedly, one can get a rough visual sense by eyeballing his graphics.

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Mr. Sahansra has investigated so many breaks that he can now solve some of the toughest cases by simply eyeballing a pipe.

Irina Bogacheva, of Kyrgyzstan, stormed from behind to edge Roba by an eyeballed finish for second place, capping the closest women's finish in Boston history.

Blacks have long complained that they are stopped, searched, followed and harassed by Beverly Hills police, eyeballed suspiciously by clerks in stores and have been ignored in restaurants.

Eyeballing the chart by Messrs Ghani and Kharas suggests services should be about 55-60% of China's GDP by now.

So Skarsgård will soon be yet more visible at those Hollywood shindigs, surrounded by even more hangers­-on eyeballing his belly­button.

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