Sentence examples for half afraid from inspiring English sources

"I was always half afraid of him," Ms. Ringer said.

"I don't want anything heavy," Ms. Min said, sounding half afraid of the compact powder.

I go back to bed, more than half afraid, and fall asleep.

The old lady's knee replacements had begun to fail, and both me and the old sumbitch was half afraid of her.

Fashion has been moving so fast these days, I was half afraid they would have already moved on to something else.

Too many teams, particularly in the early stages, regressively stuffing players into their own half, afraid of going forward for fear of allowing too much light in.

We speak of it in staunch and isolated reverence, half-afraid, half-inquisitive.

I asked the Oculus Rift representative whether I could crash the car, half-afraid, half-hoping that she would say yes.

Duprels' Butterfly is half-enchanted by adult sexuality, half-afraid, embittered by poverty, traumatised by her father's suicide, fiercely proud, reckless in her rejection of the old religion, stubborn.

Ten Nine Fourteen goes into the Timbaland story in more depth – the subsequent phone call from Drake, the house he can now afford to buy – and he sing-raps it as if still half-afraid that he's about to wake from a dream.

Moore himself said of these memoirs, "Dublin is now divided into two sets; one half is afraid it will be in the book, and the other is afraid that it won't".