Sentence examples for spoken half from inspiring English sources

He was relieved, and even before he had spoken half a dozen words he saw that she understood his need and was going to be gentle with him.

This was largely due to the popularity of dancehall music, a type of reggae favoured by the controversial singers in which the bass is turned up and words are half spoken, half sung over the top.

First Chevalier's true identity is discovered and the denizens of the castle start a half spoken, half sung number -- "The son of a gun is nothing but a tailor".

At Merkin Concert Hall on Thursday evening the soprano Lucy Shelton offered a haunting, arresting interpretation that illuminated the strangeness of Schoenberg's atonal score, set to poems by the symbolist Belgian writer Albert Giraud and written in Sprechstimme style, half spoken, half sung.

My wife loves it here and my son speaks half English, half French.

I watched the game with, so to speak, half a brain.

Hill was educated at Bowdoin and the Naval War College, and speaks half a dozen languages.

He dressed elegantly, danced skillfully, spoke half a dozen languages, and had a special affection for palindromes.

Kember occasionally broke away from knob twiddling and button pushing to half speak, half moan unintelligible vocals into a microphone.

He graduated from the Soviet Union's military institute for foreign languages and is believed to speak half a dozen languages.

They were speaking half Japanese and half English, said Ms. Walsh, who was born in Virginia but grew up mostly in Tokyo.