blear-eyed
- a variation of bleary-eyed.
Example Sentences
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Daniel Bricklin: Software = Hard Cash The idea dawned on Daniel Bricklin in 1978, while he was looking blear-eyed at blackboards filled with columns of numbers during classes at the Harvard Business School.
From Time Magazine Archive
The night the Athenia went down they were all in bed. had to be routed out and brought blear-eyed to their posts before reading could begin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bedraggled and blear-eyed, they ambled off belching LVTs to the consternation of whitebanded "umpires" who frantically waved yellow flags to simulate a mortar and grenade attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
A man might stand for Bess a whole day and more if he was a little blear-eyed from Milwaukee's favorite food.
From Gullible's Travels, Etc. by Lardner, Ring
The other man--a shambling creature, grey-haired and blear-eyed and unwashed, with a beard of a week's growth--fell back to the table and leaned against it.
From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.
