half-concealed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Who stole Padma’s phone — half-concealed in her kurta, and visible when she was first discovered hanging from the tree?
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2021
“And, always interlaced, there is Sacks’s own irresistible voice, a concoction of humor and half-concealed torment.”
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2019
I wandered around munching, sipping and enjoying the music of the talented string quartet that was half-concealed behind a bank of festive shrubbery.
From Nature • Dec. 18, 2018
This England is a place of places half-concealed, of private melancholy and a richly rotting, layered history.
From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2010
There was no one, even in her order, who had her skill at seeing the secrets half-revealed and half-concealed within the sacred flames.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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