Example Sentences

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See, when you aren’t half-blindly grabbing your glasses by the lenses to pick them up off your nightstand, they stay cleaner way longer.

From Slate • May 8, 2018

Ma Costa looked half-blindly over the little group of children and turned away to stumble through the crowd on the wharf, bellowing for her child.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

She watched them disappear down the companion way to the saloon, then she put her hands up to her eyes, groped her way half-blindly to a long wicker chair, dropped into it and incontinently fainted.

From The World Masters by Griffith, George Chetwynd

She did not reply to the question, but started half-blindly for the stairs, clinging to the bag with both hands.

From The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City by Marlowe, Amy Bell

Every one else was seated, but no one paid any attention to the white-faced girl stumbling half-blindly down the aisle next the farthest wall.

From A Girl of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene