"half wondered" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to express partial or incomplete thoughts or feelings. Here is an example: "As she watched the sunset, she half wondered if she should have taken the job offer in the city instead of staying in her small town."
I had half wondered if Jonathan Pryce as Shylock would go this way.
"We heard noises, explosions, but we were so focused you half wondered without knowing what really happened.
For a while I half wondered if some swine flu had wrought epidermal havoc in barnyards near and far.
Indeed, the first was known unofficially as LGM1, because its discoverers half wondered whether they had come across the first trace of little green men in outer space.Dr Gold's explanation was only slightly more prosaic.
I half wondered if we were being denied on no grounds whatsoever simply to shunt us into the loss prevention programs the bank already knew and loved.
The scene between them in their bedroom almost felt like a dream sequence; I half wondered if it was one, but it all really happened (and it served as something of a callback to another moment of truth with Betty from a season or two ago; like Megan, she had little makeup on and was at her most sincere).
He then hurled his microphone into the air and walked off, leaving half the crowd cheering and the other half wondering what the hell had just happened.
It's the sort of show that has you spending the first half wondering what the hell's going on, and the second hoping that, whatever it is, will never, ever end.
For decades, Chinese intellectuals have brooded over the lack of a Chinese Nobel laureate in literature, half blaming the outside world for its ignorance, half wondering if their artists are up to standards and always bemoaning the severe language barrier.
I half wonder if I shouldn't have sent my eldest niece along to interview her – a girl every bit as nosy as me, and many, many years my junior.
"It is a cliché of our own time," Betty Friedan wrote in her 1963 manifesto — which, yes, I have just finished reading — "that women spent half a century fighting for 'rights,' and the next half wondering whether they wanted them at all.
