The phrase "half familiar" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
When used, it is typically meant to describe something that is partly recognizable, but not fully so. For example, "The bedroom was half familiar, since I had stayed in this hotel before."
For us, this mock-American landscape is a fascinating bad dream, half familiar, half strange.
It had a certain magic, half strange and half familiar: Wai Er Ming, Wai Er Ming, Wai Er Ming.
At last, tired of fruitless struggles to remember half familiar faces, tired of vainly trying to avoid unwelcome dances, tired of crowds, we go to a cabaret.
Down to Earth does feel like an attempt to pack in an album's worth of singles – half familiar and half soon-to-be – while still respecting the format.
There's the fact that the poem is widely taught in high schools in America - which means that, for a great number of people over there, it has an appeal that is half nostalgic and half familiar.
Criss Cross is set in Los Angeles, and many readers will find Ellroy's dark version of the city half familiar from cinema: the narrator talks as though we know the place.
In many UK productions, Hamlet is a string of half-familiar quotations.
I spent a good part of the afternoon reacquainting myself with old haunts and half-familiar streets.
He examined the displays in the windows of new stores, observed the redesigned façades of half-familiar buildings.
Some words sound half-familiar, yet this is not French or German, and it certainly isn't Essex.
The exhibition installation, by the architect Andrés Jaque and his Office for Political Innovation in Madrid, supports this material, lived, half-familiar, hybridised version of the future.
