How to Use blurry in a Sentence

blurry

adjective
  • In the photo below, the edges of the leaves look blurry.
    PCMAG, 30 May 2024
  • The edges of the leaves are blurry, as are some of the smaller branches.
    PCMAG, 20 June 2024
  • Many are blurry or show only an ear or tail at the edge of the frame.
    Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Hawkins still has a blurry black-and-white photo from the gig.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The video might be blurry, but this detail is very clear.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Oct. 2021
  • At this point in the body of research, my eyesight starts to go blurry.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Still looked up at a faint, blurry glow just behind the gloomy canopy.
    John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2020
  • But those images still give a pretty blurry view of the ground.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The photo is also far less blurry than the one in the Facebook post.
    Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Objects in the mirror can get blurry when your nose is pressed up against the glass.
    Sloane Crosley, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2021
  • But operating right in the very blurry edge of right and wrong and doable and not doable.
    CBS News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And sometimes the lines between past and present are blurry.
    Mark Richardson, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
  • That's why as the plant blooms, the glass becomes blurry and fogged, and the leaves take on a more undefined and vivid form.
    Melissah Yang, refinery29.com, 16 May 2022
  • Police released two blurry videos of a suspect in the killings, to no avail.
    Michelle Watson, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • But the video -- shot from a camera on a cushion on a crate in a canoe -- is blurry.
    Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Maybe the first photo is so blurry due to how quickly fans ran to the comments.
    Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In the blurry photo, she can be seen swiping her thumb across her eye.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The video zooms in on the audience member's phone screen, which is blurry.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Sometimes the line is blurry, and the device is good for home or office use.
    Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 27 May 2021
  • Her vision was blurry, her hands shook from chills and her head felt heavy.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2022
  • In the video, Rick could just make out the dim outlines of a small room with a blurry object sitting in the center of the floor.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 13 June 2022
  • My vision falls blurry, like the world seen through a dirty windshield.
    Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
  • The leaks and snippets and blurry TikTok clips didn’t do it justice.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The program knows to save only the photos that show an eyeball, a beak and aren’t blurry.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
  • For his brother Elliott, the past five months have been blurry.
    Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The plot, even for someone who has seen the longer Broadway version, is blurry.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The blurry side view photo appeared to show a heavier White.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The words were sometimes still blurry, even with the pictures in focus, but this wasn't a huge issue, as the toy reads the books out loud.
    Theresa Holland, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Google claims that this feature can take your old, blurry photos and clean them up.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But a few blurry images of a possum did show up (from a Ring floodlight camera mounted up high — hence the blur).
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2024

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