Recent Examples on the WebThere was his boy, a little misty-eyed as well, looking up at him from the ice inside Bell Centre, hockey’s greatest modern cathedral in Montreal.—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 11 May 2024 Even in rehearsals with Niall Horan fill-ins Dan and Shay and the season's Mega-Mentor Wynonna Judd, people were getting misty-eyed over this trio of songs.—EW.com, 14 Nov. 2023 Justice O’Connor was visibly misty-eyed during the ceremony at which Justice Ginsburg took the judicial oath.—Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023 Campers on the Mall interviewed by The Washington Post tended to speak politely of Charles but without the same misty-eyed devotion people had toward his mother.—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
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