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  • I yelled, hanging half-out my window, long fingernails digging into the frosting.

    Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009

  • None of this half-in, half-out, “the President is sending in troops” stuff.

    Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 10/05/09 2009

  • A small rabbit is half-out of the hole, scrabbling at the earth, trying to escape something.

    stay out of the garden James Claffey 2011

  • KK roundhouses IRD in the head, knocking him half-out.

    Squirrel Fights 2008--Round Deux 2008

  • Radical Islamists already preach jihad in prisons -- this was how the just-arrested New York synagogue bombers were recruited -- and criminal gangs have proved that a half-in/half-out management model works.

    Why It's So Hard to Close Gitmo 2009

  • At the start of this solid noir from Gischler Suicide Squeeze, the police chief of Coyote Crossing, Okla., asks Toby Sawyer, a part-time deputy, to keep an eye on the bullet-ridden body of redneck Luke Jordan, found late one night lying half-in and half-out of an old pickup truck.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Victor Gischler 2009

  • She had rolled onto her side and was lying half-in and half-out of a puddle of filthy water.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • At the start of this solid noir from Gischler Suicide Squeeze, the police chief of Coyote Crossing, Okla., asks Toby Sawyer, a part-time deputy, to keep an eye on the bullet-ridden body of redneck Luke Jordan, found late one night lying half-in and half-out of an old pickup truck.

    Publisher's Weekly on THE DEPUTY Victor Gischler 2009

  • And there, exhausted by the Herculean effort, the fish rested, its tail still in the water, its head on the dry sand, gills opening and closing like fire bellows, shocked and pumping and gasping in this new amphibian state, half-in and half-out of the two vastly different worlds.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • I think you would be quite justified in addressing a chicken, just of of the shell, as “Old boy!” when compared with another chicken, that was only half-out!

    2008 February 13 « educating alice 2008

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