Example Sentences

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It's a novel I fell desperately in love with and pre-empted half-wildly.

From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2012

She was trembling as she slipped down from the hay and, walking unsteadily to the door, stood looking half-wildly out into the haunted twilight.

From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

And he raised her hand to his lips, kissing it half-wildly as he did so.

From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)