What's the difference between blaring and blearing?
Blaring
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blare
Example Sentences:
(1) With Soviet-era music blaring from loudspeakers and the Russian tricolour everywhere, the overwhelming feeling in Sevastopol was that the city was finally "going home" after a 23-year stay in Ukraine .
(2) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
(3) Hundreds of people gathered in a small park to dance to Russian pop music being blared over speakers at a stage with accompanying screen projections.
(4) One participant blared Fuck tha Police , NWA’s anti-authority anthem, into the procession.
(5) Giant screens blare out ads for electronic gadgets and energy drinks.
(6) Some were seen driving through The Hague on Wednesday night, with Serb folk music blaring from their car windows.
(7) Consumer credit was a blaringly obvious space which was causing people pain.
(8) The date was 8 March 2005 and that night, at home in Wembley Triangle, the young Sterling turned on the television to see Chelsea playing Barcelona , under the floodlights at Stamford Bridge, with the Champions League anthem blaring.
(9) The call to prayer blares out five times a day from a multitude of speakers across the city, some melodic others hellish.
(10) In the past, the broadcasts typically blared messages about alleged North Korean government mismanagement, human rights abuses and the superiority of South Korean-style democracy, as well as world news, weather forecasts and K-pop.
(11) Egypt hails $8bn Suez canal expansion as gift to world at lavish ceremony Read more A few streets over, patriotic songs are blaring at a celebration of the expansion of the Suez Canal, a megaproject hyped by the government as a turning point for the Egyptian economy.
(12) South Korean troops, near about 10 sites where loudspeakers started blaring propaganda on Friday , were on the highest alert, but had not detected any unusual movement along the border, said an official from Seoul’s Defense Ministry, who refused to be named, citing office rules.
(13) It is Greece's summer ritual: the arrival of the island ferry, funnels billowing, horns blaring, gangplanks screeching as wide-eyed tourists prepare to disembark.
(14) I’ve never seen so many police here, against the blare of sirens.
(15) It would be intriguing to know where he draws the line now – among the covers he and Andy Allo recorded was an old song of his, I Love U in Me, which is hardly Sunday school fare, while a journalist invited to Paisley Park to hear his recent album Plectrumelectrum was startled to see Prince run from the room when a particularly spicy lyric he’d “forgotten about” blared from the speakers – but his answer is a little vague.
(16) There is little sign that the country faces yet another fateful election next Sunday, except for a couple of posters in support of the ruling Justice and Development party, or AKP, and a solitary election van trundling through the streets blaring AKP’s campaign messages through the rows of immaculate yellow and beige housing blocks.
(17) There were three fans sporting hooky Liverpool replica shirts outside the Copacabana Palace hotel, where the delegation from the Uruguayan Football Association were deliberating their next move, on Thursday morning as Pharrell Williams’ Happy blared out over a neighbouring cafe’s loudspeaker system on permanent loop.
(18) In a week that has seen at least 40 die and escalating violence in Homs, the country's third largest city, state radio and private stations owned by regime cronies have been blaring out songs exalting Bashar al-Assad as "Abu Hafez", suggesting his son Hafez could succeed him, or anointing him president for "all eternity".
(19) A pledge to “make America great again”, the Rolling Stones song You Can’t Always Get What You Want blaring in the background.
(20) If this scoreline stands, I am sure the blaring misses will be unnoticed by the general public, who will instead be abuzz over that disallowed goal.
Blearing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blear
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, less flashy politicians such as Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears were the ones who made it to the top.
(2) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(3) Two days later, another letter was dispatched to Blears, this time from Hank Dittmar, the chief executive of the foundation and an aide to the prince.
(4) Should the NEC move to support this, ministers such as the communities secretary, Hazel Blears, would be vulnerable.
(5) The Home Office minister Hazel Blears yesterday welcomed the report, and said: "We have always acknowledged that the CRB's initial performance was unacceptable.
(6) But axing Hazel Blears, the feisty communities secretary, would be more difficult.
(7) Intelligence and security committee report: the key findings Read more The leading Labour member on the ISC, Hazel Blears, said: “What we’ve found is that the way in which the agencies use the capabilities they have is authorised, lawful, necessary and proportionate.
(8) Earlier, Brown promised that Labour's national executive would deselect MPs who had broken the rules of parliament, describing the expenses claims of his communities secretary, Hazel Blears, and the Labour MP for Luton South, Margaret Moran, as "completely unacceptable" – his harshest condemnation yet.
(9) The Labour MP for Chorley, Lindsay Hoyle, said grassroots members were angry at the "treacherous behaviour" of senior figures such as former communities secretary Hazel Blears.
(10) "The aim of the event," he told Blears, "is to frame a positive way forward to respond to Gordon Brown's recent, and extremely timely, call for the construction of new ecotowns throughout Britain, using the model of HRH the Prince of Wales's development at Poundbury in Dorset."
(11) Ed Miliband, the Cabinet Office minister and a figure close to Brown, was sceptical, as was Hazel Blears, a former party chair.
(12) Action already taken : Blears said she had done nothing wrong but paid back £13,000 in CGT.
(13) But without the private correspondence being released, there was no way the public could assess the extent and influence of Charles's lobbying, said Paul Richards, adviser to the former communities secretary Hazel Blears and health secretary Patricia Hewitt.
(14) I am assured that Blears, invited to write by the Observer as part of its European election coverage, did not intend her article to be taken as a "savaging" of Brown.
(15) His Blairite tag could be another boon to the rebel movement: it has been easy enough to dismiss Blears's resignation as being about expenses and bad timing, but Lord Mandelson is unlikely to be able to attack Purnell's motives.
(16) Blears rocked the party when she told Brown, at about 9.30am last Wednesday, that she wanted to leave the government for "personal reasons".
(17) Hazel Blears, the senior Labour member of parliament's intelligence and security committee , said it was right that a debate was under way in Britain over the powers of the security services, adding that the inquiry into agencies' powerful new capabilities would go wherever the evidence takes it.
(18) Howarth says it's almost as if Blears has read his speech in advance.
(19) "Hazel Blears wore a brooch saying, 'Rocking the boat'.
(20) However, Rifkind’s own recent privacy issues had made that tricky; empty-chairing himself might have set an awkward precedent that the prime minister would not have appreciated, so he settled for looking grumpy and morose while Hazel Blears ran the show.