Example Sentences

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He swings in and out of half-consciousness, both too tired to open his eyes and too tense to let go.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024

The gathering, led mostly by women of color, was half-protest, half-consciousness raising, featuring sexual assault survivors sharing their outrage at Trump’s recent comments about women and several musical performances.

From Time • Oct. 18, 2016

Story-wise, the game still feels more or less the same: clomp through hordes of enemies while Peter Dinklage delivers generic sci-fi from a state of half-consciousness.

From Forbes • Sep. 10, 2014

This blabber-proof telecast looms as far too rare an occasion to waste only in joy over a trial separation from the stream of half-consciousness that usually accompanies athletic endeavors on the tube.

From Time Magazine Archive

By then the close, damp air of that cavity far beneath Mars' surface was sinking Randall and Lanier deeper into a half-consciousness.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various