half-turning
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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That tension is sustained through the third and fourth sections, which utilize the upright, swinging, half-turning steps that characterize an earlier work, “Fase.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2011
Hesitating, half-turning to go back, it was as if a childish panic of shyness seized him, so that he smiled at himself as he stood there, in the arrested attitude of an involuntary eavesdropper.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
She looked up, half-turning as she did so.
From The Keeper of the Door by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
An' then," he said with a snarl and half-turning to face Jeremy, "we got them two boys on deck!
From The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader
“But I shall accept nothing––not a cent––from you, if we never get a penny from the Cross!” declared Dick, half-turning, as if to end the interview.
From The Plunderer by Douglas Duer
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