Sentence examples for said half from inspiring English sources

"Father," Rowan said, half smiling.

"What," he said, half listening.

Lianne said, half seriously, that it sounded totalitarian.

You need deliverance prayers," Chikwado said, half joking.

"I'm so sorry, I — " "You said half an hour.

But he said "half the programming group are millennials".

Maybe someday," he said, half-joking.

"Fucking Louis C.K.," he said, half-seriously.

"I'm Cockney," he said, half-smiling.

"We like that," he said half-jokingly.

Totally different from Blue Steel," he said half-seriously.