half-buried

British  

adjective

1. partially buried

   a ring half-buried in the mud

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Example Sentences

In Malibu: In “Planet of the Apes,” Charlton Heston’s character, George Taylor, discovers the Statue of Liberty half-buried in the sand—and realizes that what he thought was an alien planet is a postapocalyptic Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal

She tried to grab on to a half-buried stop sign, but Reuben spun her away.

From Literature

Someone was trying to climb up out of the water on a half-buried tangle of two-by-fours and sodden drywall.

From Literature

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Los Angeles Times