half-conscious
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In revisions, you add subtleties that underpin what you set down in that half-conscious state.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023
"I took the script from her as I was half-conscious and sat in front of the camera and read it," she writes.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2023
Surrounded by friends and family in the intensive-care unit, half-conscious, Jenkins rallied.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2017
What Henry and Judith don’t know is that Bon is Sutpen’s abandoned Haitian son, come to Mississippi via New Orleans, evidently in a sort of half-conscious, all but sleepwalking quest to find his father.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2012
As they raced along, the half-conscious Golden Boy mumbled a tune that sounded like “Jingle Bells.”
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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