half-buried

British  

adjective

1. partially buried

   a ring half-buried in the mud

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half-buried

Fragments of bags, clothes, and a melted shoe lie half-buried in the charred earth at the site, alongside dead trees with burned trunks.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Frozen waterways blur into land, and only a bridge or half-buried boat hints that water still moves beneath the white.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

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 ● Feb. 16, 2026

Her team was able to capture high-resolution images of different seafloor textures, for example, as well as mounds that might indicate small burrowing animals that could stir up any chemicals half-buried in the sediment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

He could make out the shells of temples and bathhouses, a half-buried amphitheater, and empty pedestals that must have once held statues.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan