Sentence examples for a sort of half from inspiring English sources

He gave a sort of half laugh, and said, "You mean" — and then pantomimed a checked swing of the bat.

He gave a sort of half laugh, and said, "You mean"—and then pantomimed a checked swing of the bat.

Lately, through trial and error, I've adjusted this expression, finding a slightly different muscle position — my mouth more O-shaped, my lips pulled into a sort of half pucker — that accommodates my laugh reasonably well and asks little of my zygomaticus major.

The same old leaking and briefing happens and politicians get tied up, in 'not not' answers: 'There is not not a reshuffle'; 'I don't not support the leader'; 'it's not, not a free vote, it's a sort of half free vote, but not free in terms of no costs or consequences, you know the other sort of free'.

"I came to New York with the idea in mind of getting a job as a dramatic critic, for I thought that that would leave me time to write novels and plays and poems and songs and essays and an occasional scientific paper on some eugenical matter, and eventually I did succeed in getting a job as a sort of half messenger boy, half assistant Police Headquarters reporter for the Evening Mail.

The former TopShop CMO and Burberry marketer helped launch those brands' digital initiatives, but late last year he left to form Innovate7, a sort of half agency, half product company.

In a serious state of depression, you become a sort of half-living ghost.

He skated over the keyboard at times, using a sort of half-touch (with the piano lid fully open) that eventually grew frustrating.

In one of the production's arresting but unilluminating gestures, the theatricality of the enterprise is emphasized by having the play presented as a sort of half-dress rehearsal.

In a sort of half-compliment towards his demystifying style of writing on evolutionary biology, Fay Weldon once called him a "poetic reductionist".

Gradually the Shelton and other hotels on this section of Lexington Avenue slipped into a sort of half-light, serviceable but worn.