blear

How To Use blear In A Sentence

• Instead of the grim faces of commuters on their way into work, people were bleary-eyed but smiling for no particular reason.
• In the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' evocative phrasing, ‘All is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; and wears man's smudge and shares man's smell.’
• Everyone I've seen in London today has got bleary eyes, and is yawning.
• But my poor blear eyes like a bat's, startled me at my shadow on the flagstones. Chapter 22
• He pulled a grimy handkerchief from his pocket and let fly with a wet honk into the rag, then he looked at them with bleary eyes.
• And, he's come to more than one Christmas program all in brown, covered in diesel dust, and bleary eyed from the craziness that is holiday delivery season. Why Does It Feel So Different? - SpouseBUZZ
• Just then, her bleary eyed, pajamaed husband Wilford Brimley walks in with a plate of pie. Y’all need backup? | clusterflock
• Last month the judges -- bleary-eyed from reading 130 nominated books each -- attacked publishers for submitting works they called "portentous," "pretentious" and "pompous. Eyes On The Prize
• Surely most of us who have children can recall the bleary days of early parenthood when that baby woke us throughout the night. Kids sleep with their cell phones: Are they suffering from connection addiction?
• Practically everyone I meet these days seems to have bleary eyes, scarlet noses and a croaking voice.