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

The storm clouds were thick on the sky again, the snow was dashing about him once more; half-blindly, gropingly, he sought to force his way from one pole to another,—in vain.

From The White Desert by Fischer, Anton Otto

She groped her way half-blindly down the stairs, the candle left behind.

From Mrs. Red Pepper by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)

I had hitherto loved art as a child or a savage might love it, ignorantly, half-blindly, without any knowledge of its principles, its purposes, or its history.

From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford