half asleep

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Senior middle blocker Alexa Hogan remembers where she was the moment she found out that there would be a season: “We were on Zoom and I was half-asleep in my bed!”

From Los Angeles Times

Our previously smiling, joking neighbors stumbled into the shelter with dazed eyes, half-asleep children and, in one case, a 5-year-old who could not be consoled, his hysterical cries of confusion ricocheting off the walls.

From Los Angeles Times

Her 11-year-old son fed a bottle to her 3-year-old daughter, who lay half-asleep in her arms.

From Washington Post

I can lie in bed hungover, half-asleep and crushed by the weight that was 2020 yet still manage to whine, “Perché è tutto così difficile?”

From Los Angeles Times

I cleaned them up and crawled back into bed, where he turned to me, half-asleep, and said, “My hair is falling out.”

From New York Times