Example Sentences

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This time he did not awaken half-drowning in an underground stream or facing a green mist.

From Storm Over Warlock by Norton, Andre

I heard my own voice asking as Buntie started to paw the prairie-floor and I did my level best to fight down the black waves of desolation that were half-drowning me.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

But from depths and half-drowning up again he always came to the surface.

From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser

As the terrified shriek of the sorry monarch rang through the interior of the desolate ruin another sound mingled with it, half-drowning the piercing wail of terror.

From The Mad King by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

For all, he lacks one thing that’s wanted by—” She stays her speech till dipping the oars—their splash, simultaneous with, and half-drowning, the words, “Gwen Wynn.”

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne