Examples of half dead in a Sentence
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Under the rising sun—around midnight in Manhattan—the destruction was revealed: sloppy gray craters pounded into the earth like graves, scorched nurseries, splintered cribs, clothes flapping like the flags of stillborn nations, and people half dead or fully dead, pallored in dust.
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Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
But yes, sad to say she’s fully completely ripped in half dead.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 July 2024
To him, the people the Americans offloaded in Haiti always looked half dead.
—Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
Its craggy trunk was half dead.
—New York Times, 27 July 2022
He has been left there half dead: broken, bleeding, moaning.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Dec. 2020
Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
But yes, sad to say she’s fully completely ripped in half dead.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 July 2024
To him, the people the Americans offloaded in Haiti always looked half dead.
—Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
Its craggy trunk was half dead.
—New York Times, 27 July 2022
He has been left there half dead: broken, bleeding, moaning.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Dec. 2020
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“Half dead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half%20dead. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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