Example Sentences

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My husband said four years ago people were coming in all day with tearstained faces and we haven’t seen that today, four years later.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2020

Fauzi excused himself to wash his tearstained face.

From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2019

There’s something tearstained about even the wildest flights of Chabonian fancy, as if each wondrous occurrence stood in for some feeling the writer couldn’t state outright.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2016

From the opening moment, a tearstained flashback, love is treated, to use phrases from the score, as a "happy moment" rather than the "journey of a lifetime."

From Time Magazine Archive

His grin faded when he saw her frightened, tearstained face.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older