half-alive
- a word derived from alive.
Example Sentences
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At a pre-sentence hearing a fortnight ago, Wilkinson described feeling "half-alive" after the death of his "beautiful wife" and losing his two best friends.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
Tall, half-alive trees stretch up around them, making the growing twilight even darker.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2022
Half-born, half-alive, half-remembered, half-forgotten—shadow children who vanished into the lilac hedge or slipped between the bars of the cattle guards.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
In the meantime, he’s only half-alive and his reanimated body has an expiration date of just a few days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2018
Without my music, I had wandered Tarbean for years, half-alive, like a crippled veteran or one of the walking dead.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
