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Examples

  • Cara squinted out the half-opened window, brushing back a strand of lank brown hair.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

  • Some recipe somewhere must have called for tapioca pearls, though, because I had a half-opened bag in the pantry the night I inexplicably got a craving for a bowl.

    Tapioca pudding 2009

  • The air came through the half-opened balcony door like a leak, stiff and cruel in its persistence.

    The Adults Alison Espach 2011

  • Li Faa pursed her insolent, unpainted lips into the form of a half-opened rosebud, and replied:

    THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

  • Cara squinted out the half-opened window, brushing back a strand of lank brown hair.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

  • That's how we came up with these curtains, four panels that could be half-opened, completely closed or completely open.

    In the studio with Bill T. Jones Sarah Kaufman 2011

  • Cara squinted out the half-opened window, brushing back a strand of lank brown hair.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

  • The air came through the half-opened balcony door like a leak, stiff and cruel in its persistence.

    The Adults Alison Espach 2011

  • Watching him these days, I just sit there with my jaw half-opened, just astonished at the tone-deafness of his insipid yammering, …

    A Sotomayor core dump 2009

  • Cara squinted out the half-opened window, brushing back a strand of lank brown hair.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

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