I looked without hope at the half-submerged Citadel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

The city was built within a half-submerged volcanic caldera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mercadian Masques]

The pressure outside the half-submerged Cat held the doors shut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

She skirted a clump of half-submerged bushes and stopped suddenly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

Floating half-submerged in the silver bath was a still-unformed thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riverwind the Plainsman]

At the bottom, half-submerged in a shallow lake of dust, is bubbletown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Known Space]

ContactlThe ship lowered further and further till it was half-submerged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Voyage]

The blow had stunned him, but being half-submerged in cold water was worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

But to me, her voice sounded like water lapping against a half-submerged buoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

The creature was half-submerged, snaking a slow, crooked path toward the raft.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veiled Dragon]

He lay half-submerged in the pool, the water lapping at his white, wooly chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shadow in Summer] Reference

Middle voices rose so that a main theme in the second movement was half-submerged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eschenbach, Mozart, Mahler and the NSO -- getting along famously] Reference

None of us spoke as we grounded the boat and dragged it upon a half-submerged pier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Pool] Reference

From a half-submerged log, a small turtle glared at us, then scuttled off his perch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Recluce]

This was about four miles down the Javary River and was a lonely, half-submerged spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference

She followed slowly after him, and found him with his forearm half-submerged in the sink bowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [War for the Oaks]

When viewing a straight stick half-submerged in water, one is directly aware of something bent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense-Data] Reference

For instance, when one views a straight stick half-submerged in water, the stick may appear bent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense-Data] Reference

Pausing on a lower half-submerged branch, Jemunu-jah reached back to help his companion to safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowning World]

His, unblinking and half-submerged in the river; hers, guileless and drowning in the color of mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-04-01] Reference

There was a small gap between the half-submerged branch they were standing on and a dry branch opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowning World]

It was half-submerged in the mud and a small thicket of twigs had already dammed against one side of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Echo Burning]

It was like wrapping an arm around a half-submerged pile on a waterfront and trying to strangle solid oak.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

He soon found it half-submerged in the shallows beneath the branches, where he figured it must have fallen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoot]

I sat down on a half-submerged log near the strip of wet sand and drew my knees up like a fence between us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prayers To Broken Stones]

Only then, looking back from the cover of the half-submerged growth, did I see men first appear on the walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Of Gor]

We passed through the water-gate with its gigantic hewn prisms of basalt and landed beside a half-submerged pier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Pool] Reference

The evidence of White's struggles - an excavating machine, rocks, a small bulldozer - sat half-submerged around it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last house on sinking Chesapeake Bay island collapses] Reference

In the middle of the violent scene of powerful waves and pounding rain, a small sampan was half-submerged in the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tapestries: Summary and book reviews of The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen.] Reference

He straightened up as the others gathered around the scorched and ripped body of a man, half-submerged in the thick foam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Code Three] Reference

Fan Zhongcheng frequently takes a boat to where his parent's home used to be, just above the water on a half-submerged hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today's WSJ in Photos: Nov. 6, 2007] Reference

Sprinkle the chopped almonds evenly over the batter, and press down on them lightly until they are half-submerged in the batter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

There was something sinister about the shimmering white wall and the smokelike tendrils drifting over the dark, half-submerged rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

As the bus drew closer to the eastern shore, crocodiles could be seen dotting the red banks and floating half-submerged in the shallows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of the Valley] Reference

Now he turned to behold his craft rushing swiftly toward the trunk of a half-submerged tree which the storm had torn away from the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma] Reference