Modifying Another Word

• slightly: The slightly bleary-eyed Guidelines session contained a good deal of interesting material.

• rather: He answered the door looking rather bleary-eyed in a green tracksuit.

Used with adjective complement

• look: He answered the door looking rather bleary-eyed in a green tracksuit.

• stare: It is as if Grandma is on acid, staring bleary-eyed at her mantle piece clock full of knick-knacks.

• emerge: The Professor returned to the theme first thing next morning, when the students emerged bleary-eyed from their tents.

Modifies a noun

• state: I bet most people don't even realize they're picking up the Metro in their bleary-eyed state on a dark morning, half-asleep.

• parent: The motion of a car also works and many bleary-eyed parents have resorted to midnight car journeys in the hope of getting some sleep.