Sentence examples for teary from inspiring English sources

'teary' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe someone's eyes (or other facial features) that appear watery or filled with tears. For example: "She had teary eyes after hearing the sad news."

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teary

adjective

Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.

  • No wonder Ryan was teary

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Coughing and slightly teary, she had to stop and drink water while her daughter took over the microphone.

But the former prime minister usually provided his own entertainment in the form of a rousing oration: his attack on the "forces of conservatism" in 1999, for example, or his teary farewell last year.Most commentators agree that by comparison Gordon Brown's first conference speech as Labour leader, delivered in Bournemouth on September 24th, was a tepid affair.

Mr Fassbender, whom viewers first see unable to exploit his metal-manipulating talents imprisoned in a metal-free bunker (something to do with a JFK assassination conspiracy, naturally), is all simmering rage and misplaced mutant pride; as a teary drug-addled Xavier, Mr McAvoy brings much-needed emotion to a plot that could easily have been top-heavy with action.

And playing the bullying Dennis, the dope-dealing, on-again-off-again, friend to Casey Affleck's luckless Warren, Mr Damon charts the psychic cost of a generation bred for success and yet forever branded by pain and self doubt.It's not easy to find a new British play among all the imports, which include an entire American season at the Donmar Warehouse, where a teary Ms Paltrow is holding forth.

He was supposed to finish promptly but when he struck up "Moscow Nights" the Reagans, Gorbachevs and other dignitaries started a teary singalong.

But the long-lasting hurt inflicted by the ordeal is obvious from Mr Basumatary's teary eyes as he tells of his wife's beating.

Montero's and Mastretta's titles are drawn from popular songs, not just to follow the trend started by others such as Sarduy, Barnet, and Puig but to mock the melodramatic, teary tone of Latin American romantic music, always about men's woes in their relationships with women.

"I think I do stand a chance with you, if I get you a bit pissed up and teary," he tells an elegant Hampstead mother, after conceding that her daughter is out of his league.

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A premature death guarantees teary-eyed obituaries, friendly missives from long-standing rivals and nostalgic reviews of your final projects.

"It's not easy," she said, growing teary-eyed.

I can't even," said a teary-eyed, but happy Musgraves, whose Same Trailer Different Park won the honour.

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