What's the difference between bleary and sense?

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.

Sense


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
  • (v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
  • (v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
  • (v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
  • (v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
  • (v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
  • (v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.
  • (v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
  • (2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (3) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
  • (4) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (5) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
  • (6) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
  • (7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
  • (8) The narX gene product may be involved in sensing nitrate and phosphorylating NARL.
  • (9) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
  • (10) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
  • (11) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
  • (12) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (13) The anticoagulant therapy undertaken by the patient appears to be of some benefit in the sense that no recurrence of thrombotic manifestations occurred.
  • (14) The results showed that measles virus produced three size classes of plus-sense N-containing RNA species corresponding to monocistronic N RNA, bicistronic NP RNA, and antigenomes.
  • (15) In this sense synapse formation must be considered a drawn out affair.
  • (16) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
  • (17) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
  • (18) Stimulation threshold, sensing, and resistance measurements from both leads were comparable.
  • (19) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
  • (20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.

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