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Examples

  • It was a yellowish brown and seemed coated with a rough and half-dry mucus.

    LOVE OF LIFE 2010

  • The word "trocken" denotes a dry wine, "halbtrocken," or half-dry, is slightly sweeter.

    Here's to a Very Good Year: 10 Wine Resolutions Jay McInerney 2011

  • It was a yellowish brown and seemed coated with a rough and half-dry mucus.

    LOVE OF LIFE 2010

  • Then it was only necessary, later, to pick up our trail outside the city, at the termination of one of the conduits, where it would empty into one of ht long, half-dry drainage ditches about a half pasang outside the walls. page 275

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • The kid had thrown up most of his ten o-clock bottle, and rancid, reeking milk, half-dry, was lathered on his face and soaking into his pajama top.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

  • ‘Switzerland,’ I perceived through the delicate network of half-dry twigs and green branches that some one besides me had found it out!

    Punin and Baburin 2006

  • ‘Switzerland,’ I perceived through the delicate network of half-dry twigs and green branches that some one besides me had found it out!

    A Desperate Character 2006

  • A shallow valley, cut by a half-dry creek, bordered with trees and underbrush, lay between Brill's pasture and the low sloping hill beyond which lay Lopez's shack.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • My other hand was no help, being inextricably tangled in hair that had turned the consistency of half-dry molasses.

    The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004

  • She jumped up out of her chair, ripped off her smock, and swung her half-dry hair out of her face.

    The Brush Off Laura Bradley 2004

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