half-naked
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Village by Lake Como cracks down on half-naked tourists.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Veteran Austrian snowboard star Benjamin Karl said thoughts of retirement can wait after he retained his Olympic men's parallel giant slalom title before throwing himself half-naked onto the snow.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
She says I was moving through the room like a half-naked and sweaty zombie, my face writhing between a malicious smile and the lucidity of someone on the verge of an epileptic fit.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2023
Walkers discovered the half-naked body of Lamduan Armitage, nee Seekanya, in a stream near Pen-y-ghent in 2004.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2023
Nine fearsome, ugly, half-naked, fifty-feet-long brutes lay sprawled over the ground in various grotesque attitudes of sleep, and the sound of their snoring was indeed like gunfire in a battle.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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