bleary-eyed

Example Sentences

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I had heard exactly what I didn’t want to hear, and Frederick and Bruno were awake now, staring bleary-eyed between the gnome and me.

From Literature

As we walk down the quiet streets, Eddie’s dad seems as bleary-eyed and tired as me.

From Literature

By the time he got himself dressed and downstairs, everyone was around the table, eating, drinking coffee or juice or what looked like strawberry milk, slightly bleary-eyed but ready for the day.

From Literature

By the time dinner was over, the last thing I wanted to do was return to the kitchen — which meant greeting the wreckage the next morning, bleary-eyed, just trying to make coffee.

From Salon

They offered to hang up her clothes, close the drapes, open the windows, turn down the bed, pour champagne, run a hot bath, and so on, but Penelope dismissed them all with a bleary-eyed wave.

From Literature