The half-naked fireman was firing recklessly, madly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

A little half-naked urchin of three years came and stood before her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference

A group of half-naked negroes lie insensible on the floor, to the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

My wife and children were half-naked and half-starved only this time last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

It was not till the man thus spoke that our friend was aware of his half-naked state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference

The house contained a dried-up old woman, and four white-headed, half-naked children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

Europeans in little cars, which half-naked negroes pushed along a narrow-gauge railway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

Searchlight (a.k.a. Richard Nixon) ogled half-naked women while on vacation in St. Martin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can the Secret Service Keep a Secret?] Reference

As they left, Roddy kicked over a statue of a blindfold and half-naked goddess of justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of the Naked Rowdies #22] Reference

Lady Gaga gets through airport security with handcuffs (and, also, while being half-naked).    From Wordnik.com.  [Casey Affleck settles harassment suits; Jennifer Lopez reportedly on as 'Idol' judge] Reference

The man was half-naked, and was binding up his leg with some strips torn from his dirty shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference

The lunchtime rush is over and we're the only ones here: just me, my guide and six half-naked women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santiago: chill out in Chile's capital] Reference

With dripping oar poised on the boat's edge, the half-naked fisherman studied the face of the man on the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of the King] Reference

Homeless, half-naked Leslie Cochran, 51, is not only perfectly articulate, he's run for mayor of Austin -- twice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Roads] Reference

They're not the first celebrities to be covered in fake blood, whether for a role or just for a half-naked photo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrities Covered In Blood: Sick Or Sexy? (PHOTOS)] Reference

I heard Tugg whispering to himself about them as he watched the half-naked paddlers urging them toward the schooner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

We were scarcely settled in our hiding-place, when a half-naked figure, swinging a short club in one hand, rushed into view.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

  The Abercrombie catalogue was conspicuously missing the buff half-naked boys and fey, slim-hipped girls that made it famous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perimeter] Reference

Where were the deadly tribunals, with their drunken judges, their half-naked assassins, and the eternal clank of the guillotines?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

Some are crowded with half-naked, flabby females, whose careworn faces, and well-starved aspect, tells a sorrowful tale of the chivalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

Horace started to say hello, but he stopped when he noticed that her eyes were closed and, much to his surprise, that she was half-naked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gazing Skyward... Or, in the dim twilight of youth] Reference

A score of half-naked men, were dancing around the fire in front of the inclosure, with the wildest and most extravagant contortions of body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

Before he meets Rosa, Matty has told us how fortunate he is to be able to sit at home "half-naked" and chat up the girls he meets on Facebook.    From Wordnik.com.  [More videos for Microsoft's Kin phones raise concern] Reference

 They show a half-naked psylph, replete with tattoos and a ridiculous pair of butterfly wings, standing athwart the path of a phalanx of Ogre UAV's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better Alive Than Dead] Reference

He is infested with things that crawl and creep, often visibly, over his half-naked body, and he is so accustomed to it that he does not even scratch.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference

Somewhere in the mass of sweat Miranda wiggles and glimmers like bait, licking her lips and dancing with half-naked gays, both of us remembering better days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ugly People] Reference

I tapped out, quickening my pace as I wound my way around half-naked sun worshippers, map-wielding tourists, and the hot dog vendor who charges customers for napkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [One For The Table: "What the He'll?"] Reference

Still, Tykwer's decision to use hundreds of extras instead of special effects -- in one epic scene, 750 half-naked bodies are squeezed into a single shot -- adds realism.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Alluring 'Perfume'] Reference

The oily cakes and crullers that the wandering baker is frying for a group of children, powerfully offend European olfactories, although so tempting to the half-naked brats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Perhaps the most powerful painting is by the rising contemporary-art star Leang Seckon, whose "My Shadow" depicts a half-naked man whose mirrored reflection shows a skeleton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Painting Pol Pot] Reference

What woman wouldn't want to be Sidney: stunningly slender, diving half-naked from a swank hotel window into an Olympic-sized pool, a diamond bracelet encircling her perfect ankle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilana Teitelbaum: The Girl Who Read Enough of Stieg Larsson] Reference