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Discover LudwigThe phrase "eyes boring" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe eyes that are dull or uninteresting, but the phrasing is awkward.
Example: "His eyes were so boring that I struggled to maintain my focus during the conversation."
Alternatives: "dull eyes" or "uninspiring eyes."
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He will work the strings of his guitar with his eyes boring between the frets, or he will put his head back and bore into the ceiling.
Chib was nodding, eyes boring into Mike.
During my fact-finding mission I felt eyes boring into my back.
Feeling the eyes boring into my back, I pretend to concentrate.
All the time, the silverback sat at the back watching us, his face impassive but his eyes boring through.
Mr. Roberts, his chiseled jaw set and his eyes boring into his partner, flings Ms. Plantadit to the ground and yanks her slowly back up.
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Her eyes bored downward, only a few times rising to challenge her watchers' gaze.
And she kept her composure after every three-putt, managing wan smiles even as her blue eyes bored holes into her putter.
The woman has the back of her hand over her eyes – bored, perhaps, or frustrated by demands this particular task of motherhood is placing upon her.
"The famous brows beetled, the melancholy gray eyes bored in, the doom-laden voice set out the words one by one, like great marble blocks," the writer Michael Kernan observed of a typical Teller performance.
Yet in my mind her gimlet eye bores in on me, sighting shortcomings in those very techniques she taught me.
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