teary

Example Sentences

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Wendy said she wanted to be "reunited" with her husband "at the end of her days" and has felt "quite teary" thinking that this will no longer happen.

From BBC

I didn’t want him to see me with my red face and teary eyes so I kept walking, the mud coming up between my toes.

From Literature

"I will go," he told AFP with teary eyes.

From Barron's

When the trooper, too, began to get teary, Truman fell back on his strongman act of bravado.

From Literature

She quickly finds herself becoming “teary” as she did in the past at other weddings, tarnished by recollections of her previous life making the novel as much about her as about Boone.

From Los Angeles Times