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  • adjective of plants that are partly erect

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Examples

  • He was awkward in the semi-erect position of walking that he assumed, and he really touched his knuckles to the ground in order to balance himself.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • He was still semi-erect and the feel of him made my muscles clench tight.

    The Reluctant Exhibitionist Jennifer L. Lopez 2011

  • Do we give awards for anyone that lets his inner Neanderthal out for a semi-erect stroll?

    Barry Bortnick: Heroism in the Modern Era 2010

  • That spiel from the photographer about his battle against sexual inequalities and such is nothing more than a thinly-veiled attempt to get some feminist backside waving in front of his semi-erect self, and to get some hench pictures of boobies and so forth.

    Support Topless Women 2007

  • Phair said to a man who elbowed his way to the stand and began fiddling with the semi-erect unit.

    Liz Phair Exults in Guyville: Frank DiGiacomo DiGiacomo, Frank 2008

  • Firstly, May readily move along the ground in the erect, or semi-erect, position, and without direct support from its arms.

    Essays 2007

  • We see him plopped a first time into his wheelchair semi-erect, though owing to orthostatic hypotension, he would have fainted.

    A Movie Stokes My Memories Joshua Prager 2007

  • *Yes, I'm employing those semi-erect e thingies Bérubé uses to mock me, but I only do so to express solidarity with Our Leader after his speech last night.

    The unbearable shrillness of bleating 2006

  • Those tiny semi-erect lines were taunting me and all of the other brave warriors of the 101st Fighting Keyboarder Brigade, questioning our manhood in a very crude and obvious manner.

    Bérubé mocks me with his e thingies 2006

  • She dropped down to the rug between his legs and freed his semi-erect cock.

    Office Slave II McKenna, J. W. 2005

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