How to Use semiconscious in a Sentence

semiconscious

adjective
  • The victim was semiconscious and could barely talk.
  • Their daughter stopped by to check on her mother, and found her semiconscious.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Alkins said firefighters found the woman semiconscious on the floor in the hallway.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The girl was breathing and semiconscious when taken to a hospital, police said.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • An emaciated man sat by a child stretched out semiconscious on a cot, where two other small children were receiving oxygen.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Police reported the victim was semiconscious when he was taken to a hospital.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Epstein had previously been placed under suicide watch after he was found semiconscious in his cell with a noose around his neck more than two weeks earlier.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Enlarge Westend61 Sleep is a semiconscious state, but there are neurons firing in the brain even when all seems quiet.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
  • 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
  • Ditty had called 911 to report that her daughter was vomiting, struggling to breathe and semiconscious.
    — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Arriving officers located the moped driver, an adult man, who appeared to be semiconscious, police said.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Officers located a 31-year-old resident of the home semiconscious and another, Weber, not breathing.
    — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 9 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • This was the year a mountain spontaneously materialized in rural Kansas, one kilometer high, composed entirely of semiconscious adult men.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 May 2022
  • Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 28 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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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