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Example sentences for "bleary"

Lexicographically close words:
bleakest; bleakly; bleakness; blear; bleared; blease; bleat; bleated; bleating; bleatings
  1. The old dry cackle answered the question; the bleary eyes were bright with cunning.

  2. All day he sits on his steps in the sun and peers through his bleary eyes across the mountains, and chuckles to himself like an old hen.

  3. The bulging, bleary eyes, on which the glaze of continuous dissipation had once settled as if to stay, were not as she remembered them.

  4. Where restless hawks and chainless ghouls Blink bleary orbs at dust and stone; And glozing night-gnomes love the sight That geysers toss upon their crest, Feal afrites bathe in a pool And wash each harlot's bloody bone.

  5. Nor was there mirth when the sun came peeping over the eastward range this cloudless Sabbath morning, shaming the bleary night lights at the store--the bleary eyes at the table.

  6. When morning came, and the bleary people pulled the curtains, it was a clear dawn, and they were in the south of France.

  7. Outside, a gray January mist engulfed the city, and electric bulbs from the houses across the street cut bleary patches in the mantle of fog.

  8. When he awoke it was broad daylight and the dimly burning bulb of the reading-lamp shone with a futile bleary light.

  9. He stood waiting, under the gleam of the bleary light, detained more by curiosity than by the grip upon his arm.

  10. The once bright eyes were bleary and dull.

  11. The bleary red eyes glanced at her keenly, and appeared to appreciate her disappointment.

  12. He paused with a grimy finger in the middle of a column of figures, and peered at Gipsy with a pair of red, bleary eyes.

  13. Of those two boys," the old man peered at them with his bleary eyes, "you need have no fear, mesdames.

  14. There seemed something indescribably evil, malignant, and cruel, in those bleary eyes which thus sought Bob out, fastened themselves upon him, and seemed to devour him with their gaze.

  15. Two of them were old men, whose bleary eyes and stooping frames indicated extreme age.

  16. A tongue of yellow lapped out from a bleary deck-lamp and licked across crowded bodies, groping stanchions and hatches, touching twin ventilators that reared up, like phantom cobras, out of the jungle of human beings.

  17. The old woman looked up at him with bleary eyes, and puffed in his face.

  18. The Eyesore followed the direction of her finger with a bleary eye.

  19. One bleary eye stays open, and the other eyelid stays shut, over the other bleary eye.

  20. That was one thing I learnt in Bleary Street.

  21. Having worked for two years in the Bleary Street Settlement she had her preconceived ideas of what she was to find, and she found something so different that her first consciousness was that of being "sold.

  22. Besides, her Bleary Street work had brought her into contact with girls who had gone to the bad, and she had not found them different from other girls.

  23. She had known girls in the Bleary Street Settlement who could persuade her that black was white, but who had proved on further knowledge to be lying all round the compass.

  24. Her experience at Bleary Street had helped her in this; and Letty had been quick.

  25. It was a way of which her experiences in Bleary Street had made her skeptical.

  26. Some large, some small, but most of them enlargements, it was apparent of kodak snapshots, for the eyes had that bleary look which comes in photographs spread over ten times their intended space.

  27. With bleary eyes, sunk deep in his head, he gazes intently through the bars.

  28. The woman looks up at her with bleary eyes.

  29. And your lodger, is he an ugly, slouchy creature--with hooked nose, bleary eyes and shaggy yellow hair?

  30. I took no notice of him, however, even though, as I walked past him, I saw that he opened one bleary eye and watched my every movement.

  31. I did not feel safe with that bulky packet of papers on me, and I felt that Theodore's bleary eyes were perpetually fixed upon the bulge in the left-hand side of my coat.

  32. He made no demur about giving me the five hundred francs, but half my pleasure in receiving them vanished when I saw Theodore's bleary eyes fixed ravenously upon them.

  33. Blasius received me with reserve born of suspicion, and his bleary eyes searched my face coldly at my name and my demand for Parks.

  34. I looked into his fat pasty face, that gave back an unhealthy almost livid pallor to the light that shone upon it, and caught the glance of his shifty bleary eyes under their puffy lids, and a shudder of repulsion ran through me.

  35. Then they all turned their foul and bleary eyes toward me, and stood as if transfixed with astonishment.

  36. These hideous beings all gathered around me, blinking at me with their bleary eyes and grinning with their abominable faces, and then each one embraced me.

  37. Isaac Bassett, a bewhiskered old man whose bleary eyes and empurpled nose told the tale of much secret tippling.

  38. Fascinated, Piang gazed into the vicious, bleary eyes, and finally he realized that they were losing some of their fury; the tusks sank into the spongy earth; the head fell lower.

  39. The small, bleary eyes seemed to devour Piang as they tortured him with suspense, but he patiently waited for his chance, knowing that he would only have one.

  40. He surveyed us with a bleary eye, and remarked: "Bledlau!

  41. Here he pulled his cheese-cutter cap down with a jerk, so that the bleary eyes were no longer visible.

  42. Yes, and her eyes got red and bleary when she was reading.

  43. The bleary eyes were really fastened intently on the girl's bright face, and he hung upon her words.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bleary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bleary; blurred; confused; dark; dim; effete; exhausted; faint; feeble; filmy; foggy; fuzzy; hazy; inconspicuous; indefinite; indistinct; indistinguishable; misty; obscure; pale; shadowy; spent; uncertain; unclear; undefined; undetermined; unrecognizable; vague; weak