half-buried

They thought it was being deliberately camouflaged, since it was half-buried under the sand out in the desert in Western Iraq.

Think Progress » Even Though Bush Used False WMD Claims To Justify Iraq War, Rove Claims They Dealt With ‘Reality’ 2010

As it turned out, it was half-buried under the Iraqi sand because it had been abandoned, it was empty, no evidence of WMD found there, nor evidence that WMD had been manufactured there.

Think Progress » Even Though Bush Used False WMD Claims To Justify Iraq War, Rove Claims They Dealt With ‘Reality’ 2010

No jacket was found in the initial searches but in 1986, while Mrs Chamberlain was serving a life sentence, an Englishman, David Brett, fell to his death from Uluru, landing beside the jacket which was half-buried close to dingo lairs.

Dingo baby case that divided a nation could be closed at last 2011

The first shock of their attack rapidly wears off, and while the film's makers may argue that the Swiss author Erich von Däniken has been telling us for decades that aliens have been visiting our planet for several thousand years, the odd thing is that nobody in Cowboys & Aliens seems particularly surprised by their appearance, or by that of the mother ship half-buried in mountains.

Cowboys & Aliens – review 2011

Roberto "Beto" López Santiago of Etzatlán poses alongside a half-buried megaspherulite lying alongside the road to the old Amparo silver mine, 4.7 kilometers north of the Piedras Bola developed area in Jalisco.

Roberto "Beto" López Santiago of Etzatlán poses alongside a half-buried megaspherulite lying alongside the road to the old Amparo silver mine, 4.7 kilometers north of the Piedras Bola developed area in Jalisco. © John Pint, 2009 2009

After Diana's death, even the queen and Prince Philip allowed themselves to be photographed half-buried in the tacky flowers and mementoes piled up outside the gates of Buckingham Palace; and in another newspaper photograph of 1997, the queen meets the Spice Girls, whose cleavage is more prominent than the bouquet the queen is carrying.

Portraying an Enigma Paul Levy 2011

Suddenly the lobby door crashed into the adjacent wall and stayed there, the knob half-buried in the Sheetrock.

Least Resistance 2009

She'd found a stone half-buried in the mud and grass nearby and was desperately digging her fingers around its edge, trying to pull it out of the ground.

FREE EXCERPT: Hater by David Moody (Chapter 3) 2009

Having a completed first draft of a book is like finding a complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex half-buried in the Montana soil.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Getting it Down: Crappy First Drafts 2010

An amnesiac, later identified asJake Lonergan Daniel Craig, recovers consciousness in the wilderness, horseless, a photo of a woman half-buried in the sand before him and a curious manacle or bracelet on his left arm, which, given the movie's title, suggests extraterrestrial origins.

Cowboys & Aliens – review 2011