Example Sentences

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In one representative passage, So half-seriously, half-facetiously writes that Maddox Jolie Pitt, Angelina Jolie’s adopted son, is his “role model, because I’m still waiting for a rich white person to adopt me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023

She, only half-seriously, said her home address right now is the Olympic Village.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2022

He completed marathons in Boston, Washington, New York and Honolulu, and joked — half-seriously, it seemed — about leaving mediation behind to open a running-shoe store.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

Last week, when stories about the Sotheby’s auction began circulating, a group of acquaintances started half-seriously DMing one another on Twitter about bidding on it.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021

Gone, too, was “Perry O’Parsons,” the name invented for the singing sensation of stage and screen that he’d half-seriously hoped some day to be.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote