Example Sentences

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For weeks, I woke to a woman’s energetic voice cutting through the fog of my semiconsciousness, announcing her gratitude to the center’s reproductive specialists.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2021

It flooded the brain with thoughts of bleakness and desolation, of scattered patrons in various stages of semiconsciousness.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2018

Since I was in a state of semiconsciousness, the thought of calling my lifestyle manager did not occur.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2012

His intense existentialism is closer to dementia, and the result is a raging stream of semiconsciousness in which real and imagined horrors swim by, indistinguishable and unreal.

From Time Magazine Archive

I open my eyes in the middle of the night, and feel the familiar numbness of semiconsciousness combined with medication.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman