half-opened
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Her half-opened eyes stared at nothing.
From Los Angeles Times
They lumbered about with half-opened eyes.
From Literature
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On a Minetta Lane Theater stage strewn with hand sanitizer, discarded masks and half-opened Amazon delivery boxes, Elizabeth Marvel, as Mary, fell apart grandly, while Bill Camp offered a wickedly funny James Tyrone — self-absorbed, self-flagellating, but more than anything, colossally bored.
From New York Times
“See,” said Meg, coming up with a white, half-opened rose, “I thought this would hardly be ready to lay in Beth’s hand tomorrow if she—went away from us. But it has blossomed in the night, and now I mean to put it in my vase here, so that when the darling wakes, the first thing she sees will be the little rose, and Mother’s face.”
From Literature
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He replied not: he seemed serious—abstracted; he sighed; he half-opened his lips as if to speak: he closed them again.
From Literature
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