[ US /ˈbɫɪɹi/ ]
[ UK /blˈi‍əɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. tired to the point of exhaustion
  2. indistinct or hazy in outline
    a landscape of blurred outlines
    the trees were just blurry shapes
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How To Use bleary 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.
  • Everyone I've seen in London today has got bleary eyes, and is yawning.
  • 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.
  • When I say get by, I'm still bleary-eyed and coffee-dependent in the morning.
  • The bleary eyes, he says, are down to a lack of sleep because of a faulty alarm on his motorbike.
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