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- adjective Stained with
tears .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When you shut your truth behind baby teeth specked with mud and stars then we hold you tight in tearstained heart-twisted joy that you love us enough to be little and to lie.
Little Love (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010
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When you shut your truth behind baby teeth specked with mud and stars then we hold you tight in tearstained heart-twisted joy that you love us enough to be little and to lie.
Little Love (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010
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Most nights I would come home to find her sitting on the bed, watching TV with a tearstained face.
Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011
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Then when Zan, her tearstained face buried in her hands, managed to stifle her anguished reaction to the relentless questions, Jennifer Dean said, Ms. Moreland, this is a new twist on your story.
I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011
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Most nights I would come home to find her sitting on the bed, watching TV with a tearstained face.
Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011
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Her eyes were closed, her face sweat- and tearstained.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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Emmett cried, opening the door to find me tearstained and disheveled.
And One Last Thing… Molly Harper 2010
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Slowly, she rolled over onto her back and stared up at Megan with bloodshot, tearstained eyes.
THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010
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Slowly, she rolled over onto her back and stared up at Megan with bloodshot, tearstained eyes.
THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010
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Her eyes were closed, her face sweat- and tearstained.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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