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Meanings of dry-eyed in English

Free from tears.

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Examples for "tearless"
1
The sky was as tearless as the right eye of the Commander.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
2
In tearless grief Paolo Tarsis kept vigil through the short summer night.
Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air
3
We see mothers in fierce, tearless overdrive, like figures from Shakespearean tragedy.
The Guardian
4
Speechless and tearless the wretched woman looked vacantly down on his face.
Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
5
The eyes which she raised to his face were tearless-buthardly sane.
The Tyranny of Weakness
Usage of dry-eyed in English
1
By the time he arrived at the station, he was dry-eyed.
Dayworld
2
By the end, he might be crying but everyone else will be dry-eyed.
The Guardian
3
She knelt beside Obsidian, dry-eyed, frowning, trying to understand why everything had suddenly changed.
Bloodchild and Other Stories
4
That all sounds like over-the-top parody, but the dry-eyed brutality of Who Is America?
Wired
5
Their faces were pictures of worry, but they were dry-eyed.
Riding rockets
6
The girl did not weep; dry-eyed she winged a perfectly sincere prayer toward incorruptible saints.
Chivalry
7
She'd simply sat there, dry-eyed, clutching Nimitz to her chest while she stared straight ahead.
Field of Dishonor
8
Samples from dry-eyed patients contained keratinized cells with or without a decrease in goblet cells.
Pubmed
9
He'd been dry-eyed over Sacha, that wound too deep to bleed; this was something else.
The pretender's crown
10
My father died this morning. She is dry-eyed and even-voiced, a newscaster reporting a fire.
The center of everything
11
She stood dry-eyed beside the little grave, and helped to make the little wooden cross.
A Town like Alice
12
It won't make much difference to the dry-eyed, huddled woman in the chair across from me.
In the Land of Jim Crow
13
Her deep emotion was dry-eyed as of old.
The Man
14
Angelica, dazed and dry-eyed, stared at her stupidly.
The Heavenly Twins
15
But Caroline, angry and dry-eyed, went to the door and called in a shrill voice: Winnie!
The Privet Hedge
16
Though dry-eyed, her face was pallid and tight.
Spider bones: a novel
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Dry-eyed through the time