How to Use semiconscious in a Sentence
semiconscious
adjective- The victim was semiconscious and could barely talk.
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Alkins said firefighters found the woman semiconscious on the floor in the hallway.
—Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
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Their daughter stopped by to check on her mother, and found her semiconscious.
—Ellen Barry, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
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Paramedics and police found the woman to be breathing but semiconscious and noticed wounds on her body, Gates said.
—George Houde, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
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He had been placed on suicide watch in July after he was found in his cell semiconscious with marks on his neck.
—NBC News, 27 Aug. 2019
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By the time sheriff’s deputies and firefighters arrived to the scene, the neighbor was semiconscious and beginning to breathe on his own — the efforts made by Shankwiler and his two sons had saved the man’s life.
—Sara Cardine, La Cañada Valley Sun, 19 Apr. 2017
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In those semiconscious moments before dawn, any room or world is all aloneness; but in this place, profoundly so.
—Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
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Ralph Brissette, 33, of Pacoima, who had been loading slag onto cars at the rear of the work area, was knocked down, but was able to stagger, semiconscious, toward the east portal more than four miles away.
—Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
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The resident, who was semiconscious, had bruises to his face and body and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
—Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
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Epstein was removed from suicide watch at the New York City jail where he was being held just days after he was discovered semiconscious with marks around his neck.
—Sanya Mansoor, Time, 15 Aug. 2019
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Ditty had called 911 to report that her daughter was vomiting, struggling to breathe and semiconscious.
—Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 30 Nov. 2021
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With a 3-year-old who tumbles through life in a semiconscious dream state, getting anywhere in a city by foot is often a miserable slog spent snatching hands and barking orders.
—Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
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Police reported the victim was semiconscious when he was taken to a hospital.
—Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020
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Epstein's death after he was found injured in a fetal position and semiconscious with marks on his neck roughly two weeks ago at the federal prison in Manhattan.
—Dartunorro Clark, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2019
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Epstein was placed on suicide watch in late July and given daily psychiatric evaluations for a week after he was said to be found semiconscious in his cell with bruising on his neck.
—Fox News, 15 Aug. 2019
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Epstein had been placed on suicide watch after he was found semiconscious with marks on his neck just three weeks earlier, but he was removed from monitoring shortly after.
—Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2019
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Orchestral players communicate through a series of semiconscious cues, adjusting their timing to a colleague’s nod or the jerk of an elbow.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 27 May 2021
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Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate was cleared of any wrongdoing in the incident that left Epstein semiconscious in his cell three weeks before his death, according to the cellmate's lawyer and a source familiar with the matter.
—NBC News, 16 Aug. 2019
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The consensus was that semiconscious brains do not heal, especially not months or years after an injury, so research and aggressive treatment were futile.
—Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2011
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Officers located a 31-year-old resident of the home semiconscious and another, Weber, not breathing.
—Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 9 Nov. 2020
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Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston.
—Alaska Dispatch News, 28 June 2017
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Investigators are expected to focus intensely on the timeline of what happened in the period after Epstein was found semiconscious less than three weeks ago in a shared cell, with bruises on his neck, after a judge denied him bail.
—Katie Benner, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2019
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Investigators are expected to focus intensely on the timeline of what happened in the period after Mr. Epstein was found semiconscious less than three weeks ago in a shared cell, with bruises on his neck, after a judge denied him bail.
—New York Times, 11 Aug. 2019
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Schiff was a neuroscientist, probing the nuts and bolts of the brain; Giacino was a diagnostic master, devising better ways to evaluate semiconscious patients.
—Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2011
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Neighbors spotted Mr. Derlus, 62, and carried him, semiconscious, from hospital to hospital.
—Azam Ahmed, Paco Nunez and Alan Blinder, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2016
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This unrelenting storm of abnormal neural activity turned her teenage years into a semiconscious...
—Christopher Mims, WSJ, 5 June 2017
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This was the year a mountain spontaneously materialized in rural Kansas, one kilometer high, composed entirely of semiconscious adult men.
—Catherine Lacey, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
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