half-drowned
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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When youths age out of foster care, “we throw them in the river only to fish them out half-drowned downstream,” says Garen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
They had been replaced by dead or dying half-drowned wasps.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2023
In the opening moments of the show, Hazel flounders onscreen looking like a half-drowned mermaid — wet, disheveled, in a scaly green dress and smeared eye makeup.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2021
Artists squat in half-drowned buildings and drink in speakeasy bathhouses; the office towers of midtown have been turned into apartments with their own docks, dining halls, and rooftop farms.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2017
I had a wet, trembling, half-drowned, heaving and coughing three-year-old adult Bengal tiger in my lifeboat.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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