Sentence examples for half suspects from inspiring English sources

The story haunts Burnside and confirms what he already half suspects, that the loveliest girls are the lost girls, the ones you can't have: a scarred beauty, for instance, whom he glimpses once on his paper-round and never sees again; Iphigenia, or Ophelia; or the murdered wives in folk ballads.

I half suspected she believed the second one, too.

Yataro's favorite was "han shin han gi" or "half believe half suspect".

As I half suspected, Pirate's Booty is a victory of style over substance.

Everything is so unfamiliar that you half suspect you're on Mars.

I think that maybe some of them had half suspected the truth all along.

The dialogue is so mannered, and the performances are so overwrought, that you half suspect it is being made tongue in cheek.

Mr. Macintyre himself writes about spies so craftily, and so ebulliently, that you half suspect him of being some type of spook himself.

Yet in performance it remains so unpretentiously charming and lively, you half suspect it could fill a house for as long as a producer would let it run.

A YouGov poll carried out last September found that two-thirds didn't trust civil servants to keep information from one another, while half suspected they would share it with outsiders.

Biden had half suspected that he could do things better than a young, inexperienced President, but after six months he was humbled by Obama's command of a complex financial crisis that offered few political dividends.