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Definition of half-open in English: half-openadjective Partly open. a neighbour peeped though the half-open door Example sentencesExamples - I slept in a hammock in a half-open goat barn, which was nicer than it sounds.
- He watched her open the box, her mouth still half-open with surprise.
- The eyes flicked, still half-open, to the direction of his voice.
- Its few leaves curve over its pencil-thin stem like a derelict, half-open umbrella.
- Having locked his keys inside his car, Earl tries to reach them by extending his arm through a half-open window.
- Cut when flowers are half-open, and then re-cut stems underwater.
- The former president was lying in state behind glass in a half-open coffin in the Caracas military academy.
- The dark hole behind the half-open curtain contributes something extra in underlining the artificiality of the setting.
- A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects.
- When I first meet him, he's in muddy jeans and a half-open shirt.
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