How to Use bleary in a Sentence

bleary

adjective

• She looked at me with bleary eyes.
• Late at night, the bleary-eyed teams share their ideas.
  — Rowan Jacobsen, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2019
• Looking on were a small cadre of bleary-eyed staffers and floor staff.
  — Ryan Nobles, Ted Barrett and Manu Raju, CNN, 28 May 2021
• The next day, Bharara addressed the bleary-eyed staff of the Southern District.
  — Andrew Rice, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Oct. 2017
• The kids filed in right at game time, bleary-eyed but excited.
  — Nick Hoppe, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2018
• She and the actor John Krasinski read the names to a crowd of bleary-eyed reporters.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• Though tired and bleary-eyed, Jack made it to Rebecca’s show.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2017
• On the eighth floor of the Strand, the two sauna ladies look bleary-eyed, but tickled, in their white gowns and hospital shoes.
  — Dean Kuipers, SPIN, 8 Jan. 2023
• Dutcher gave a brief speech to his bleary-eyed players and motioned to the net on one of the baskets.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• In the picture, Gomez stares bleary-eyed into the camera, wrapped in a blanket.
  — Neha Prakash, Allure, 9 Oct. 2019
• One boy wiped the bleary eyes of his baby sibling, just woken up from a nap.
  — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• For a week and a half, baseball was at the center of the sports world, the subject of every morning’s bleary-eyed talk.
  — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017
• Her eyes were bleary, and her cigarette held on to her lip like a magic trick.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• And maybe soon, the guy who makes your Triple Layer Nachos some bleary midnight.
  — Sophie Alexander, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2020
• In the predawn darkness, Morales, 28, gets her girls ready for school, walking them, bleary eyed, to breakfast in the lobby.
  — Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 22 Dec. 2017
• Over nine hours, bleary-eyed councilors heard a message that had rippled across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
  — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2021
• After the game, Redick wore the disappointment — his eyes bleary, a Dodgers cap pulled down over part of his face.
  — Dan Woike, latimes.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• Any bleary eyes from the night before were gone as this collection kicked like a strong shot of caffeine.
  — Alice Tate, Marie Claire, 20 Feb. 2013
• Whether any of them will pass muster with bleary-eyed Grammy voters is anyone’s guess.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 20 Oct. 2022
• His eyes are bleary; a blurred clock raises its hands toward midnight.
  — Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Notre Dame wasn’t the only bleary-eyed arrival to San Diego early Thursday.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2022
• Silver hair tousled, dark eyes bleary, Tosh grabs her phone from the nightstand, taps off the soft music and starts scrolling through her texts and emails.
  — Andrea Ball, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2022
• Sun or not, bleary-eyed race winner Alex Bowman needed his shades.
  — Dan Gelston, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2022
• For the rest of us, technology can help overcome that bleary-eyed and dreamy-headed feeling to get us out of bed on time.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2019
• Crying is par for the course with the Ohioan, who was often seen bleary-eyed during his tenure as a congressman.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Four years ago, the bulk of this year’s Westview boy’s soccer roster arrived as one, 14 bleary-eyed freshmen.
  — Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 12 Nov. 2022
• At a bleary 8:30 the next morning, one of Google’s top researchers gave a keynote with a sobering message about AI’s future.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
• The benefit of an extra hour of sleep becomes more valuable than an extra hour of (bleary-eyed) work.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 30 Aug. 2017
• Rendered in a bleary style that connotes distance and loss, the artworks evoke the Holocaust-era flight of the artist’s father from Lisbon — whose harbor is also pictured — to Glasgow.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• The best Weeknd songs are expeditions into the bleary morality of the middle of the night, a conflict between wise inklings and disastrous impulses.
  — Vulture, 30 June 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024