What's the difference between bleary and blurry?

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.

Blurry


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of blurs; blurred.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Almost all the hundreds of allegedly missing drawings, which range from close-up detail to blurry colour washes and clearly held a powerful erotic charge for Turner, appear to be safely in the Tate collection.
  • (2) Ann's audiovisual address ends with her projecting on to the screen behind her a series of extremely blurry photographs.
  • (3) You know, I actually don’t know, because it was so far away and it was blurry.
  • (4) Light is then focused in front of the retina instead of precisely on to it, making distant objects look blurry.
  • (5) Of particular concern is the complaint of 'blurry vision' that may indicate the presence of optic neuropathy.
  • (6) For some at the bottom of the pile, at least, the line between zero-hours working and self-employment is getting blurry.
  • (7) The anger will fade, in the end but those blurry memories of this brilliant game will linger on much longer.
  • (8) LaVoy Finicum, the Oregon militia spokesman killed by law enforcement officials on a remote highway, was armed with a handgun and reached for his pocket before he was shot, according to the FBI, which shared blurry video footage of the shooting on Thursday night.
  • (9) But when even Felix started to echo back the word yamas – "cheers" in Greek – I knew it was time to catch the ferry to a simpler existence, away from the blurry influence of Dionysus.
  • (10) Four years ago – in the blurry haze following my diagnosis – I had to make a swift decision about whether to have a breast reconstruction at the same time as my mastectomy.
  • (11) A case is presented of a postpartum woman prescribed bromocriptine for suppression of lactation who developed hypertension, headaches, blurry vision, seizures, and pituitary hemorrhage.
  • (12) It began as an attempt to restore one blurry image that had been hidden for a century behind a large built-in wardrobe on William Morris's bedroom wall.
  • (13) And with optical image stabilisation, you no longer have to worry about shaky hands and blurry pictures," Google said.
  • (14) The defocus levels required for normal observers to notice the first perceptible blur of a clear test target (blur threshold) and the least perceptible change in the degree of blurriness of an already blurry target (threshold of perceived change in blur) were measured using both the source and observer methods.
  • (15) Lebanon’s Al-Manar television channel, run by the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, carried still, blurry pictures of pools of blood inside what appeared to be the mosque where the attack took place.
  • (16) The camera swoops and shakes, the main characters shift in and out of blurry focus, and there is no sound apart from music and a triumphant voice-over.
  • (17) "We're in this new era of entertainment where the lines between consuming content and participating in it are blurry," he said, before pointing to the global nature of YouTube, with 40% of the 80,000 channels in AwesomenessTV's network produced outside the US.
  • (18) It was interesting to see what foreigners are shown – a chilly model hospital with no patients, for example – and a few blurry glimpses of what they are not shown: the miserable poor, squatting in ditches.
  • (19) These are principles that we must stand by, even when we disagree with the message of the speaker.” Santilli’s prosecution raises questions about the blurry line between media personality and protest participant and the extent to which free-speech rights can protect a radio host who, in several ways, engaged in the armed occupation of federal land.
  • (20) The mere release of the American cover was much buzzed about: it shows the blurry image of a girl overlaid with royal blue lettering.

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