adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deep-set (= far back in someone's face )
▪
Mac’s eyebrows were thick and dark, above deep-set eyes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deep-set/wide-set/close-set eyes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and darting, deep-set eyes.
▪
He was sitting on the Café-Restaurant's deep-set verandah, shaded almost to the point of darkness against the morning sun.
▪
Her firm jaw slanted sideways, and her large, deep-set eyes seemed often to be staring at some-thing in the distance.
▪
His deep-set eyes were normally narrowed against intrusion.
▪
His eyes were deep-set and almost feverish, shining out from under craggy brows.
▪
I lounged on the couch in the attic sitting-room, pyramidal in shape with deep-set windows.
▪
The eyes were deep-set and shadowed.
▪
There seems to be on his face, and in his deep-set eyes, an expression of profound sadness and disillusionment.