half asleep

Hetty was very tired; very cold; half asleep, and half frightened.

The old man was half asleep, and murmured dreamily, "That's Nora."

The child, who was in his shirt-sleeves and half asleep, smiled as he rubbed his eyes.

Thus he was in a very bad humor, puffing and yawning and half asleep.

Captain Perez was half asleep when Eri opened the door of the shanty.

He contrived to push on next day, walking during most of it half asleep.

The girl had been leaning back, her eyes closed, as if half asleep.

"I've had such a wonderful time," she murmured, half asleep.

Hilda (lays her head on the stove, and answers as if half asleep).

I always tell him he must have been half asleep, and didn't hear me.