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  • An aerial tour by helicopter Saturday morning near the local airport here showed a dead zone of small planes, helicopters and cars strewn half-submerged in green-brown water.

    Relief Effort Continues as Nuclear Worries Loom Chester Dawson 2011

  • Tiffany Hartley says that on Sept. 30, she and her husband, David, were returning to the United States from Mexico where they went to photograph a historic, half-submerged church.

    David Hartley Possibly Mistaken For Another Man When He Was Killed AP 2010

  • Evelyn Waugh complained about the appearance of "villas like sewage farms, mansions like half-submerged Channel steamers, offices like vast beehives".

    British architecture: modernism 2011

  • The unexplained explosion tore apart the front of the ship and left the 4,198-tonne vessel half-submerged, according to the coast guard.

    Five die in unexplained explosion on South Korean ship 2012

  • A third wave, more colossal than any he had yet seen, hurled the church into the lagoon, where it floated off into the obscurity to leeward, half-submerged, reminding him for all the world of a Noah's ark.

    THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI 2010

  • In her village in Bogra district, north-west Bangladesh, women rarely leave their paras half-submerged islands floating in watery paddy fields that are connected to each other by a web of mud roads.

    The 'Avon ladies' of Bangladesh 2011

  • An aerial tour by helicopter Saturday morning near the local airport here showed a dead zone of small planes, helicopters and cars strewn half-submerged in green-brown water.

    Quake, Tsunami Slam Japan Chester Dawson 2011

  • About the third time retracing my steps along the trail I finally spotted what I had begun to dread seeing—a pair of boots sticking out on a rock and connected to a half-submerged body, a full head of orange hair flowing with the current.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

  • An aerial tour by helicopter Saturday morning near the local airport showed a dead zone of small planes, helicopters and cars strewn half-submerged in green-brown water.

    Quake, Tsunami Slam Japan Chester Dawson 2011

  • Middle voices rose so that a main theme in the second movement was half-submerged.

    Eschenbach, Mozart, Mahler and the NSO -- getting along famously Anne Midgette 2010

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