half-buried

adjective

1. partially buried

   a ring half-buried in the mud

Example Sentences

The first bridge built comes when Mother, played with restrained warmth and radiance by Ms. Levy, discovers a newborn black baby half-buried in her garden.

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Ditto the thrashing electro-punk “Perfect Celebrity,” which she performed as she lay on her back, half-buried in a sandbox and dry-humping a skeleton.

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The 24-year-old's body was discovered by her father, half-buried in sand dunes on Wangetti beach between the popular tourist hotspots of Cairns and Port Douglas.

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As a survival strategy, I’ve trained myself to look for the artist in the abattoir: the half-buried strain of racial anxiety, the social commentary of the zombie mall, the chill of a Tobin Bell line reading.

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The body of the young woman, named only as Philippine, was found on Saturday, half-buried in the Bois de Boulogne park on the western edge of the capital.

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