Sentence examples for half-serious from inspiring English sources

Van Zandt was being only half-serious.

The students cracked half-serious comments about being let off.

These are real, if only half-serious, proposals.

She laughed when she said it, but was half-serious.

Sometimes he sounds half-serious, and who can blame him?

I'm assuming this question is only half-serious (and hopefully less).

His new thought, half-serious, was to send Tebow in at linebacker.

(We consider carefully Mark Twain's half-serious advice: "When you catch an adjective, kill it").

It includes half-serious violence and a strain of eeriness that could easily disturb young children.

Would you lay hands on him, please?" It seemed obvious that she was only half-serious.

"On a plane," is his half-serious answer, qualifying it to "between New York and China".