Sentence examples for blear from inspiring English sources
adjective
Dim, unclear from water or rheum.
When my eyes blear and I cannot focus any longer, the window is a way for my mind to blink, to clear my vision.
When TV shows run through Christmas No 1s of years past, Tom Jones's "Green, Green Grass of Home" always sticks out like a sore thumb, a blear country song about a man returning to his childhood home that was No 1 for seven weeks over the 1966 Christmas period and well into January 1967.
Birna shopped till I dropped, then dragged the children off towards the Vatican leaving me to blear about the piazzas in a dreamy Lemsip torpor.
Baudelaire's exotic landscape ("indolent climes", "lagoons", "fruiting plants") is transformed into a tacky bar - the entrancing aroma of the lover's skin becomes the smell of eau de cologne "that leads me by the nose to this outpost / of glam where barstaff and bouncers blear / into the welter of last night's pulls".
Only at the advanced age of seven did poor Timber begin to show interest in a "drivelling, blear-eyed little tame rabbit of the female sex", for which Dickens "whopped him" – surely puzzling Timber by his inconsistency.
He refused to say whether he thought other senior Labour figures, including Hazel Blears, Geoff Hoon and Jack Straw, should stand down after being accused of similar financial irregularities in their expenses claims as Darling.
Don't miss his remarkable Monbiot Meets video encounters with interviewees including Hazel Blears and Andy Harrison the boss of Easyjet.
Hazel Blears, the longstanding Salford and Eccles Labour MP, says: "I'm not soft on benefits, I never have been.
Cameron praises the campaigning Blears has done on this.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.29pm BST12 29 Labour's Hazel Blears says he is glad Cameron is wearing a dementia friends badge.
The poem grew from and alludes to a long evening of increasingly drunk conversation between me, Iain and a publishing colleague, with cigarette smoke thickening the air and blearing the one eye each of us kept on the television news updates, the night Chernobyl burned.
