How to Use bleary in a Sentence

bleary

adjective
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  • 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
  • Like wiping your eyes after a bleary-eyed glimpse of daylight in the morning, the telescope still needs to adjust its focus.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Two days before The Times visited, the 79th brigade had suffered heavy losses, the toll of unrelenting combat evident in their bleary and bloodshot eyes.
    — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • All over the Chicago area, in homes and at hospitals, in college dorm lounges and bleary all-night coffee shops, people rearranged their lives because they, too, felt compelled to watch the funeral of Diana.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022

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