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misty-eyed

ADJECTIVE
  1. having eyes blurred as with tears
    sad and misty-eyed

How To Use misty-eyed In A Sentence

  • Raburn grows nearly misty-eyed recalling his 50th birthday party, which Gates hosted.
  • There is something a bit misty-eyed about his apparent view that small regional players must be better than bigger nationwide ones. Times, Sunday Times
  • Big, tough, fully matured yobs with a multiplicity of tattoos and convictions for affray and GBH get misty-eyed when reflecting on their unmuzzled pit-bull Vinny and their lethal Alsatian Prince.
  • Even as his team prepare to raise the curtain on the new top-flight season tomorrow, Sir Alex Ferguson remains misty-eyed about the star performer who has left the building.
  • I don't get misty-eyed for the days of bipartisanism. Washington's Blood Sport
  • A sackful of medals followed, and his partnership with John Toshack is still talked about by misty-eyed Liverpool fans even today.
  • In one break it appeared alongside my current bete noire, the one where a fortyish chap, with a look on his face that I suspect is intended to be misty-eyed romanticism, talks about how instead of doing the weekly shop he would rather be watching the waves break on the shore, or walking with his lovely wife and kids in the park, or be in bed making love to his lovely wife. Magical weekend in Cardiff is in a league of its own
  • He goes all misty-eyed whenever he hears that song.
  • I think our misty-eyed longing for the high streets of our youth may be overly nostalgic.
  • I have no need to resort to false praise based on misty-eyed sentiment: this is a rocking, vibrant, joyous album.
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