What's the difference between teary and terry?

Teary


Definition:

  • (a.) Wet with tears; tearful.
  • (a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Next to Aung San Suu Kyi was General Zaw Win, deputy minister for border affairs, who accompanied the Guardian to Rakhine state in December, where he openly laughed at a teary-eyed Rohingya man in an internally displaced persons camp who pleaded : "We are real Rohingya – please recognise us."
  • (2) Her performance easily outdid her competition throughout the night, though video of the year went to a teary Miley Cyrus , who let a homeless young man accept her award.
  • (3) There was even a genuinely moving soft metal version of You’ll Never Walk Alone, sung by the entire stadium, the night transformed suddenly into a huge blissfully teary family wedding.
  • (4) We are not in the least bit ashamed of the actions we have taken,” a teary-eyed Ammon told a sea of news reporters huddled together in the cold on the side of the road by the refuge on Friday morning.
  • (5) President Obama never delivers teary sermons about how these Muslim children "had their entire lives ahead of them - birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own."
  • (6) No mealy-mouthed, "I might have done it a little bit" teary-eyed confessions on Oprah.
  • (7) I remember a teary conversation with mine, questioning why she had been so selfish and just had me?
  • (8) Deschamps rightly describes him as a player who can make a difference, while Payet’s teary reaction to his match-winning performance against Romania told its own story.
  • (9) At one point he got a little teary, but mostly he behaved like a 19-year-old who has just been handed the moon and stars: delighted, puppyish, grateful.
  • (10) Among the teary-eyed moms at the hearing was Moriah Barnhart, who moved to the Denver area from Tampa, Florida, in search of a cannabis-based treatment for a daughter with brain cancer.
  • (11) Poor people cannot afford the costs – said, variously, to be anywhere between £20,000 and £50,000 – to obtain a gagging order; a point made by a teary Thomas in an interview on ITV's This Morning last week.
  • (12) I remember touching it … the police box … and I got a little bit teary.
  • (13) I get teary in the part where she says she wants to live.
  • (14) The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, another of the Venezuelan president's most loyal disciples, was teary-eyed and declared: "Chávez is more alive than ever."
  • (15) In the al-Jazeera footage, the teary-eyed mother holds the Libyan opposition flag around her shoulders and says Obeidi is "a hostage, taken by the tyrants".
  • (16) The Mill does not get all teary eyed just for nothing but the Mill had a moment last night.
  • (17) Sitting in my hospital gown on the examining table after the false alarm, I was teary, embarrassed and alarmed at my unruly mind.
  • (18) Romney appeared teary-eyed throughout, unusual for a politician who generally avoids shows of emotion.
  • (19) Dirty and teary-eyed, Redjeson Hausteen Claude appeared to smile at his ecstatic mother as he was carried from the rubble.
  • (20) 5 The protests won't go away Putin's teary speech will infuriate protesters, for whom he is a figure of loathing and contempt.

Terry


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (2) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
  • (3) His decision to be filmed has echoes of the death of Guernsey-based hotelier Peter Smedley, whose assisted death in 2011 was screened in a documentary by the late Sir Terry Pratchett for the BBC .
  • (4) They survived Gary Cahill's injury, John Terry's red card and going behind, and still had time to see Lionel Messi, the greatest player in the world, miss a penalty.
  • (5) Ferdinand says the state of Louis van Gaal’s defence is such that Stones would immediately become its linchpin but that the former Barnsley player may not be ready to dislodge John Terry or Gary Cahill from Chelsea’s backline.
  • (6) His lawyers argued their ability to organise witnesses on Terry's behalf was seriously hampered by Chelsea's demanding season.
  • (7) I'm glad I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if one of Carragher and Terry didn't give away a penalty.
  • (8) While Terry said that he did not see anyone else while confined at Homan in 2011, he said he heard people yelling “no, no, no” and “stop”.
  • (9) That, however, tells only part of the story of a night in which Chelsea went 2-0 ahead, courtesy of headed goals from Didier Drogba and John Terry, only for Napoli to respond via a peach of shot from Gokhan Inler.
  • (10) And those of us who will go on watching men play are happy that it now offers a gallery of negative role models – Evans, Mackay, Whelan and Terry among them – from which those who follow them into the game can learn behaviours to avoid.
  • (11) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
  • (12) John Terry made the decisive contact, lashing in the loose ball, then quickly went back to making sure his own defence was not so generous.
  • (13) Given the intensely political nature of Eurovision voting – which contributed to Terry Wogan's decision to step down as British host – is it time to abandon the rule?
  • (14) He points to the whippet-like Andy Bond at Asda, the lean Sir Terry Leahy at Tesco and the "little bit chubby" Justin King at Sainsbury's as proof of his theory.
  • (15) Although Hodgson accepts the FA's decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy – the issue which fractured Capello's relationship with his former employers – he intends to sit down with the Chelsea defender and Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand to gauge whether they can be in the same squad.
  • (16) The black Americans who were drafted from 1967 to 1970 called themselves Bloods, and many were influenced by the teachings and politics of Stokely Carmichael, the Black Panthers and Malcolm X. Terry explains: "They would wear black amulets, they would wear black beads, black gloves to show their identity and racial pride."
  • (17) Updated at 3.59am GMT 3.52am GMT DCL (@DCL9) " @NotCoachTito :"Brandon Doin' Work, Man" @LengelDavid "Tag this thing & bag it now.Let's get this one to make sure there's a game 6 in #Boston October 27, 2013 Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) Brandon Workman is coming to the plate batting for himself.
  • (18) Tugendhat also stated that "in the language of defamation, the information would be capable of lowering [Terry] in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally".
  • (19) Rooney, Terry, Giggs … Footballers are hardly the gentlemen of your day, are they, Ron?
  • (20) Burns' ability to ride out a storm earned him the nickname "Teflon Terry".

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