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misty-eyed

ADJECTIVE
  1. having eyes blurred as with tears
    sad and misty-eyed

How To Use misty-eyed In A Sentence

  • But her audience isn't limited to a cache of misty-eyed ex-pats yearning for home.
  • Jeff: I got misty-eyed twice: when Claire gave birth again, and when Sawyer and Juliet were reunited. The last 5 minutes of LOST explained – Brian Keene
  • There has been no misty-eyed nostalgia at being reunited with his former employers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not surprisingly, at the ceremony today, quite a few of us graduates, faculty, and family members got a little misty-eyed.
  • sad and misty-eyed
  • WITHOUT an iota of irony, misty-eyed fans with typewriters are fond of referring to football as ‘the beautiful game’.
  • Whenever Maria sees a picture of her mother, she gets misty-eyed .
  • Maybe that speech was written, misty-eyed, after spending 30 hours straight reading Robert Frost poems, and he might even have rewarded himself with a big dose of Librium and bed .... A simple thing (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • A sympathetic, though not misty-eyed, history of the fall of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last emperor of India's Mughal dynasty. The Worst of All Possible Worlds
  • In one break it appeared alongside my current bete noire, the one where a fortyish chap, with a look on his face that I suspect is intended to be misty-eyed romanticism, talks about how instead of doing the weekly shop he would rather be watching the waves break on the shore, or walking with his lovely wife and kids in the park, or be in bed making love to his lovely wife. Magical weekend in Cardiff is in a league of its own
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