bleary-eyed
adjective
having bleary eyes.
blear-eyed
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a variation of
bleary-eyed.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
This is a small, blear-eyed, bullet-headed, bloodthirsty-looking bull-dog, with red eyes and snarling mouth.
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth
“When I think of the knock-kneed, blear-eyed critter I found layin’ up above the Bajada grade, I can’t hardly recognize ye, Thady!
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
