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Example sentences for "half afraid"

  • She tells me about them sometimes, and she teaches me spells and curses and things; but I'd be half afraid to use them.

  • She smiled, half afraid to move lest the dream should vanish, and the next moment he had her fingers close in his grasp.

  • The beast had a good start if he had taken the best advantage of it; but he failed to do so.

  • And only pausing at the door, Her sad eyes met the troubled gaze Of one who, in her better days, Had been her warm and steady friend, Ere yet her mother's doom had made Even Esek Harden half afraid.

  • Half afraid of her own ecstasy, she broke away from him and ran home.

  • Rosemary watched him, half afraid, though his mood was far from strange to her.

  • Sidenote: Half Afraid] The white fire burned in Rosemary's blood; her heart beat hard with rapturous pain.

  • I shall be half afraid to present her in the world, she's such a rustic!

  • But really I shall be half afraid to venture the remainder of my life with such a variable being.

  • I should be half afraid of such a Will-of-the-wisp lover.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half afraid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    combined with; government head; half after; half calf; half cents; half centuries; half century; half fathoms; half feet; half gallon; half glass; half hidden; half interest; half knots; half minutes; half ounce; half ounces; half pints; half pounds; half teaspoon; half the; half times; half whisper; half wide; last words; terrible prowess