1. Not half an hour back I had been dewy-eyed with nostalgia for him.

2. I can never understand why people become dewy-eyed and sentimental about the past.

3. At one moment he gave himself up completely to his pride at having captured this pretty, trustful, dewy-eyed thing!

4. Grandparents are a bit like furry pets: everyone gets all dewy-eyed about them until they have to be responsible for one themselves.

5. Mrs Obama did not campaign as a traditional first lady, staring at her husband with dewy-eyed admiration and limiting her comments to bland pleasantries.