Recent Examples on the WebEven in rehearsals with Niall Horan fill-ins Dan and Shay and the season's Mega-Mentor Wynonna Judd, people were getting misty-eyed over this trio of songs.—EW.com, 14 Nov. 2023 Justice O’Connor was visibly misty-eyed during the ceremony at which Justice Ginsburg took the judicial oath.—Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023 Campers on the Mall interviewed by The Washington Post tended to speak politely of Charles but without the same misty-eyed devotion people had toward his mother.—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
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