Global warming has left half the world scorched, and half drowned.
An Arab man was holding forth tediously, his words half drowned by the rain outside.
Half drowned out by the steady noise of the mill, Muhammad shared his memory of the early morning attack.
Indeed American officials have admitted to using "enhanced" methods of interrogation including probably a technique called "waterboarding" - effectively half drowning a person to force them to talk.
Having struggled to hear their collective voice in the first half, drowned out by a Leeds support that outnumbered those in red and white by almost two to one, Doncaster's fans erupted as their top scorer broke the stalemate.
This is a book for anyone who has ever laboured under a deadline, battled a stubborn pig of a boss, or half drowned beneath a wave of bureaucracy and paperwork.
"I was making bad weather of it, and climbing up over a lot of rocks out of a gully bottom where I had been half drowned in a stream, and getting my head to the level of a block of rock I observed right in front of my eyes, broadside on, maybe a yard off, certainly not more, a big leopard.
My friend and I hunted all over Albany for any kind of portal — a wardrobe, a rabbit hole, a passing twister — until in a vacant scrubland half drowned in standing water, we paused, sensing an air of solitude and mystery, of impending magic.
Half drowned, hammered by Spinosaurus, who has obviously set his heart on eating American tonight, our guys make one last, anguished call on their satellite phone; crosscut to a placid home, back in the suburbs of the United States, where a small boy picks up.
But Jameel Jaffer, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who was a co-editor of a book on the treatment of detainees, said her published remarks made it clear that torture might not only be defined as including the most extreme measures, like waterboarding, which has been described by some as half drowning.
The 22nd struggled across the river and reached the Maryland shore "half drowned".
