How to Use bleary-eyed in a Sentence

bleary-eyed

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• The director is a bit bleary-eyed and yawning, but that won’t last.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023
• That means most of us spend about about a third of our lives sleep-walking like bleary-eyed zombies.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• Some people roll out of bed bleary-eyed and head straight into the shower to freshen up (and wake up) for the day ahead.
  — Bianca London, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2023
• Lucas Sommer woke up around the time the stock market opened and, still bleary-eyed, opened his Robinhood app.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
• The kids and their caregivers meet at 7 a.m. at a South Side big box store parking lot, bleary-eyed but excited.
  — Claire Savage, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2023
• El Guero’s menudo is a delicacy — a miracle to the bleary-eyed crowd.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2023
• Past winners include champs of all shapes and sizes Last year, Trumpet the bleary-eyed bloodhound ran away with best in show, the first bloodhound to earn the title.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 8 May 2023
• On a recent morning, Alexis Mabille showed up bright and early on the Champs-Elysées looking a bit bleary-eyed.
  — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2023
• The experience left both men bleary-eyed and exhausted before the end.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024
• Our party of three, by contrast, included two bleary-eyed parents and a starving 8-year-old.
  — Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
• The emergency officials boarded the plane and carried the woman down the aisle past bleary-eyed passengers.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Feb. 2024
• Pablo, a hefty dude in a tight white tee, bleary-eyed behind his thick shades, dumps multiple tablespoons of sugar onto his rice.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Aug. 2023
• It’s been a wonderful, bleary-eyed week full of love and kindness and extraordinary poo.
  — Anna Myers, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• Many are bleary-eyed after a whirlwind week celebrating the Salone del Mobile, the world's largest furniture-and-design fair.
  — Kerry Olsen, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2023
• Along the route of the royal procession, thousands of bleary-eyed onlookers — tourists and homegrown royalists alike — had lined up days in advance to claim a prime viewing spot, camping out with tents, tarps and plastic chairs.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
• Four months later, it’s replaced by handfuls of bleary-eyed commuters, air travelers and often-empty rail cars that snake up and down the burgeoning Silver Line tech corridor.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
• The sirens wail across the Ukrainian capital, rousing bleary-eyed residents, who, after 15 months of war, have customized individual routines to cope with Russia’s latest air campaign.
  — Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024