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  • Partly, that's because we like Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto), the risk-management underling who figures out what's coming and calls his half-drunk boss (Paul Bettany), who calls his boss, who calls his.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • And the kids from the private high school started using it as a bar counter, planting their half-drunk Coke cans and Starbucks cups there.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Four Funny Faces Nancy Ruhling 2011

  • “What was that?” one of the half-drunk men said as he jerked on the reins, halted his horse, and got down.

    Judge deveraux The Scent of Jasmine 2011

  • "Sorry, mate," an overexcited and half-drunk fan shouts at me.

    FREE EXCERPT: Hater by David Moody (Chapter 4) 2009

  • Maybe they think having a ship that wears a half-drunk expression will have a negative effect on first contact situations.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • The commentary team is comprised of a half-drunk Georgie and his overly enthusiastic American counterpart.

    Real Madrid v Barcelona – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2012

  • I bent for a half-drunk drinking coconut, but Aimoku kicked it out of my shaking fingers, and Humuhumu smote me with the heel of his hand on my neck.

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

  • And the kids from the private high school started using it as a bar counter, planting their half-drunk Coke cans and Starbucks cups there.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Four Funny Faces Nancy Ruhling 2011

  • I think we have something like a grown-up liquor cabinet now, rather than a bottle of vodka stuffed into the back of the freezer and a half-drunk bottle of tequila perched on the back of the fridge.

    panama freighter wearing rusty brown stillsostrange 2009

  • Maybe they think having a ship that wears a half-drunk expression will have a negative effect on first contact situations.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

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