Example Sentences

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Nicknames for aerogel include "frozen smoke" and in pictures it can look like an ethereal half-gas, half-solid slice of matter.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2023

On this half-solid, half-liquid substrate, staking the tents had proved impossible.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

The stuff had cooled and jelled into a half-solid condition.

From The Water Eater by Marks, Winston K.

According to Eustathius, the compound was a kind of thick gruel, half-solid, half-liquid.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley

The very sand, for roods around, had a brown iron-like tinge, and seemed baked into a half-solid mass, resembling clay.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various