What is "partway"

Usage examples of "partway".

Sir Randolph yawned partway through those fibs of mine, which I considered very telling.

The second portcullis,, at the far end of the tunnellike entrance, had fallen and jammed partway.

Trojan prime: beautifully tooled-leather waistband, soft ivory waistcloth, laced boots that came partway up his calves, and a variety of gold and bronze jewelry about his fingers and dangling from his ears.

She let her eyelids drift partway down as the dragon flew through the water, snatching yellowfin and angelwhites down its long gullet.

They rocked along in a jangle of light past appliance shops with Aztec temples painted on their facades, bodegas clubs souvenir shops, their bright windows aglitter with crystal crosses gilt madonnas rhinestone eagle knives flashing in miles of red midnight, little stucco caves with corrugated iron doors rolled partway down, interiors littered with every form of cheapness: mirrors with ornate tin frames, torrero capes with airbrushed scenes from the Plaza del Toros, sombreros festooned with embroidery and bits of broken mirror, switchblades with dragons worked in gold paint you could scrape off with your thumbnail.

Finally Seri climbed partway up one of the north-running canyons across from what they thought should be the best way.

It was hard to keep his eyes open, but he knew it would alarm Lior and Magan if he appeared to lose consciousness, so he let his eyelids flutter but only close partway.

I am partway to Amesby, in midair and in ultraslow motion, arms coming up.

The doctors had to do an emergency Caesarean, hauling me back out of the birth canal I'd already slid partway down.

The roof-hatch was partway up, & the heart-shaped radar dish was turning, just as it does on the show.

The pink van just sat there with its roof-hatch partway up and its radar dish turning, and then it started to fade until it was just a shimmer.

If the Backfires tank up partway down and proceed at max power, two hours.

Then, her expression registering fury, she slewed partway around and imperiously beckoned to someone standing at the back, below the stage.

Slim as he'd been when she met him, he still sought out those errands the other castrates strove to avoid: trips up into the steep streets of the old town, or even farther north into the hills or partway up Sangarios itself in search of healing herbs or leaves or simply meadow flowers for her room.

The method used was to break down the amino acid chains only partway by the use of acid or of various enzymes.