half-opened

[haf oh-puhnd]

adjective

1. partly open; open, but not all the way.

Example Sentences

Her half-opened eyes stared at nothing.

From Los Angeles Times

They lumbered about with half-opened eyes.

From Literature

On a Minetta Lane Theater stage strewn with hand sanitizer, discarded masks and half-opened Amazon delivery boxes, Elizabeth Marvel, as Mary, fell apart grandly, while Bill Camp offered a wickedly funny James Tyrone — self-absorbed, self-flagellating, but more than anything, colossally bored.

From New York Times

“See,” said Meg, coming up with a white, half-opened rose, “I thought this would hardly be ready to lay in Beth’s hand tomorrow if she—went away from us. But it has blossomed in the night, and now I mean to put it in my vase here, so that when the darling wakes, the first thing she sees will be the little rose, and Mother’s face.”

From Literature

He replied not: he seemed serious—abstracted; he sighed; he half-opened his lips as if to speak: he closed them again.

From Literature