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Recent Examples of bleary The mere sight of your newborn—through bleary, tired eyes—can muster feelings of wonder and awe. Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 9 Apr. 2025 Laugh Lines: For Movie Buffs P.S. Feeling a little bleary today? Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025 Underneath my soaked baseball cap, my eyes are dark and bleary, my face stubbled and worn. Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 These people have already seen each other bleary eyed and mussed (and would probably overlook a little grocery-list making or other multitasking). Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011 See All Example Sentences for bleary
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleary
Adjective
  • The toll on crew members goes far beyond simply being tired.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2025
  • If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • Stories come to life only through concrete, sensory details, but my father only spoke in vague and abstract terms.
    Margot Singer July 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
  • Though vague, Galvin said case law suggests reasonable means that the rules are consistent with the culture and character of the type of community.
    Nora O’Neill July 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • After overseeing five issues in a nine-month tenure at the helm, an exhausted Johnson returned to American Medical News full time in 1990, and Chicago Times folded several months later.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • The exhausted face of its owner, a tech executive ending another 14-hour workday, tells quite another.
    Pavi Theva, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • That memory, faint but enduring, was set in the downstairs den of their home.
    Ajdina Halilovic, Wired News, 6 July 2025
  • The Milky Way appears as a faint, hazy band stretching across the sky, almost like a cloud made of stars.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • And the family members of the missing — from the camp and elsewhere — continue to grow weary.
    Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 7 July 2025
  • Officials noted that the public can grow weary from too many flooding alerts or forecasts that turn out to be minor.
    CBS News, CBS News, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • How this all will ultimately lead to world-building applications is hazy—and that’s part of the point.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 July 2025
  • Looking for a 4/20 warm up show that will haunt your hazy dreams?
    Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025

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“Bleary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleary. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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