half asleep
Frequency: 8.392.1 per million words
Partially awake and partially asleep.
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Examples (10)
- At the end of the afternoon, they were exhausted and half asleep.
- He was half asleep during the long, boring lecture.
- When the phone rang, I answered it, still half asleep.
- She stumbled to the kitchen, half asleep, to make coffee.
- The whole class seemed half asleep after lunch.
- He lay there, half asleep, listening to the rain on the roof.
- I was only half asleep, so I heard the strange noise downstairs.
- Don't talk to me before my coffee; I'm still half asleep.
- The medicine made him feel drowsy and half asleep all day.
- Were you half asleep when I told you the news?