Example Sentences

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In the alley behind, flies are breakfasting on a patch of distinctly human-looking, half-dried feces.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2015

I ran and snatched up four bunches of the half-dried bear grass.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

She shook out her clinging clothes, and twisted up her half-dried hair, then sat down on top of the promontory and sang.

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

The ranch house stood in the winding bottom of a creek; the flanking hills were covered with stunted cedar, while dwarf cottonwood and box elder grew by the pools in the half-dried creek bed.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various

Gunnar and Odin had stood there looking up at the half-dried mummies that swung slowly about and grimaced at the tiny wind that perplexed them.

From Hunters Out of Space by Kelleam, Joseph Everidge