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How to use half-open in a sentence

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Having locked his keys inside his car, Earl tries to reach them by extending his arm through a half-open window.
I slept in a hammock in a half-open goat barn, which was nicer than it sounds.
The former president was lying in state behind glass in a half-open coffin in the Caracas military academy.
The dark hole behind the half-open curtain contributes something extra in underlining the artificiality of the setting.
A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects.
Its few leaves curve over its pencil-thin stem like a derelict, half-open umbrella.
Chris threw his empty burger carton at Steve's head, but it deflected off the half-open refrigerator door as Steve put the milk back.
If parts or half-open pumps are to be stored for any length of time, they must be protected from dirt and corrosion.
In a half-open type Ward in Ora¨je in the framework of Correctional Institution in Tuzla, final work on a building within the Ward is underway.
These measurements were to confirm the setting of 4 gates partially open to duplicate the flow through a single gate half-open.
A pleasantly cool breeze was drifting in though the half-open window behind Maui.
He watched her open the box, her mouth still half-open with surprise.
The eyes flicked, still half-open, to the direction of his voice.
Cut when flowers are half-open, and then re-cut stems underwater.
Unlike many ducks, which propel themselves underwater with their feet, murres dive by flapping their half-open wings, as if flying underwater.
When I first meet him, he's in muddy jeans and a half-open shirt.
The man in the ocher-colored robes sits cross-legged, eyes gently shut, palms half-open like seashells resting lightly on his knees.
The rain entered the building through literally hundreds of ducts, gaps, cracks, crevices and half-open windows and vents.
A slave appeared in the half-open doorway and scurried away at Adriana's emphatic gesture.
The online shop Primrose does some very clever mirrors that look like half-open windows.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She stood on tiptoe, bending forward, and held her ear to the half-open door.
The door was half-open, as Morris was talking with some one on the mat in the hall.
A dozen times I saw him half-open his mouth to give the order he dared not give.
As he stood at the half-open door, he was disposed to offer his hand.
She went close to the half-open gate and popped in her head.
Then I creep noiselessly through the house and listen at half-open doors.
Through the half-open doorway she saw a girl standing before an easel.
There was a slight stir in the passage outside the half-open door.
While she was still hesitating, the half-open door of her husband's study attracted her attention.
Then the dog shut his eyes tight, poked his nose straight up in the air and sniffed hard with his mouth half-open.
Its long, savage mouth, which was held half-open, was full of a double row of shark-like teeth.
He sent a rapid glance through the half-open door of the chamber, and, ascertaining that what I stated was apparently true, delivered the house of his luckless presence.
Jo peeped into his half-open eye, felt his little heart, and finding him stiff and cold, shook her head, and offered her domino box for a coffin.
She had a vision of Claudius the physician brushing by her half-open door.
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