What's the difference between bleaky and bleary?

Bleaky


Definition:

  • (a.) Bleak.

Example Sentences:

Bleary


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat blear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He and his friend, with bleary red eyes, said they had camped out and "woken in the middle of the night, with a strange light".
  • (2) Ask me tomorrow morning when I’m bleary-eyed leaving here, when it’s hopefully finished and ready to go.” The song features lyrics reworked to reflect the Ebola crisis in the second and third verses and refer to the risks of cross-infection from comforting Ebola victims.
  • (3) When most of us utter the word detox, it’s usually when we’re bleary eyed and stumbling out of the wrong end of a heavy weekend.
  • (4) Just a bleary-eyed, bespectacled Gotti being led out of the door of the home he shares with his wife and six children.
  • (5) It was only the hardcore English left, long after the celebrations had ended, hungover, bleary and grumpy.
  • (6) The film, Brooks said, "is riddled with flaws, from its bleary lack of focus to its glaring lack of chemistry [between the leads].
  • (7) Those bleary-eyed souls who shuffled into Tuesday's breakfast discussion between the Tory party leader and his new favourite thinker, Nassim Nicholas Taleb , were surely not expecting the entertainment that followed.
  • (8) Get up at 9:34 when The Employed are already ploking themselves, bleary-eyed, in front of their screens.
  • (9) Juncker emerged bleary eyed shortly after 3am to attack Tusk, saying: “I protest against this working method.
  • (10) By dawn, marines were storming apartment 401 to pick up a bleary-eyed and shirtless Chapo before he had time to react.
  • (11) So hours before my wife fearlessly tackles the school run, I'm scampering down the road, damp-haired and bleary-eyed, to intercept the 4.40am Oxford Tube coach on its way to London.
  • (12) Ashes dominance breeds... bleary-eyed late night cricket viewers Both Sky Sports and ITV4 appear to be benefiting from England dominating Australia in the second Ashes Test match in Adelaide.
  • (13) Photograph: Channel 4 Suggested by LtotheW No uni experience would be complete without the obligatory stoner housemate who emerges from their room bleary eyed at 1am to grab some cereal and shuffle back to their hazy room.
  • (14) Hot flushes, like babies, can keep you up all night, but it’s a confident woman who’ll volunteer that as an excuse for being bleary-eyed in morning meetings.
  • (15) Instead, we're waking up mid-afternoon, bleary eyed and unemployed, at our parents' house.
  • (16) I read it at a single sitting – about a week, including bleary breaks for eating and sleeping.
  • (17) It was an early start on Saturday for pop stars old and young who began arriving in an assortment of gleaming, tinted-window vehicles at the Notting Hill recording studios in west London just after 9am, some more bleary-eyed than others.
  • (18) Last Friday, having spent a long night at a count in Falkirk, I whiled away a bleary-eyed afternoon on George Square in Glasgow.
  • (19) One of my bleary countrymen turned to another and said: "They sound like they're angry all the time, don't they?
  • (20) He recalls coming out of his tiny LA apartment, bleary from playing video games, and looking up to see an enormous billboard with his face on it.

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