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How to use beady in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Beady means resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming. Example: “I've got my beady eye on you, so don't try any monkey business.”

Examples of beady by meaning

adjectiveResembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.

  • I shivered in every limb, and a cold beady dew sprang out on my temples as I stood with eyes riveted on the spectral figure before me.1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major

More sentences with beady

  • I've got my beady eye on you, so don't try any monkey business.From the entry beady eye
  • His beady noggin had visions of floggens as he zeroed in on the new ackamarackus.2012, Thomas D. Bryson, The Psychotic Preschoolers, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry ackamarackus
  • “Chico, you're late again.” I turned around and stared him in his beady eyes.2003, Zane, Skyscraper, page 7. From the entry bad
  • So what if Gunther’s eyes are dark brown, beady?2014, Patience Bloom, “If He Says He Doesn’t Reciprocate Your Feelings, Believe Him and Run”, in Romance Is My Day Job […], New York…. From the entry serial-killer glasses
  • The man on Zeke's side had a scrabbly black beard and wore a dingy baseball cap low over his beady eyes.2013, C. C. Marks, Heart of Mercy. From the entry scrabbly
  • Large, steady, purplish-grey eyes gazed into beady, twinkling, black ones—gazed unquailingly—with something in them that cowed and compelled.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon. From the entry cow
  • The camp of bats then settled on the ceiling, hanging upside down with their beady eyes shining like stars in the torchlight.2013, T.D. Pierce, Captain Wilder Part One, Friesen Press, page 44. From the entry camp
  • A youngish looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 113. From the entry lantern
  • A youngish-looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 113. From the entry cheekbone
  • "Come and see!" and the old creature ogled Carrados with her beady eyes as though the situation constituted an excellent joke between them.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry ogle
  • Just because it seems too clingy and shimmery and beady and soft for a jacket, and it probably cost about five thousand dollars, that doesn't mean it's not a jacket.2011, Lilian Darcy, Princess in Disguise. From the entry jackety

Meaning of beady

  1. adjective Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
  2. adjective Bright and penetrating. (of eyes or a look).
  3. adjective Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.

Full definition of beady

Questions about beady in a sentence

How do you use beady in a sentence?
Beady is used as an adjective. For example: “I've got my beady eye on you, so don't try any monkey business.”
What is a short sentence with beady?
“So what if Gunther’s eyes are dark brown, beady?”
What does beady mean?
Beady means resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beady (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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