Half Talking

She was half-talking to herself as she uncon - sciously smoothed the tight fabric over her rounded hips. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unfortunately, he didn't sing much, half-talking his way through his long and venerable repetoire of country and pop classics. ❋ David Wharton (2009)

His mouth hung open, his torso frozen in an odd twist, half-talking on the phone, half-turned toward his two children. ❋ Richard C. Morais (2008)

It was not such boisterous play that we had, we two together, yet I think we enjoyed it very much, half-talking, half-playing. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Instead of donning her wrapper, as did Bel, Lottie sat down before the fire, and, as was often her custom, commenced half-talking to her friend and familiar, and half-thinking aloud to herself. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

As Drew really gets rolling, he lapses into a half-talking, half-singing staccato that hypnotizes his audience. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We've spread out a picnic blanket and we're half-watching the movie, half-talking through the movie. ❋ Lollipopgoldstein (2010)

But he also made the choice to mix in lots of half-talking, half-singing, a move apparently meant to enhance the poignancy of the lyrics, though it often felt like a missed opportunity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Half-rapping, half-talking, occasionally singing over grimy beats means people will hate and love her in equal numbers, but she'll be hard to avoid next year. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Accompanied by a six-piece band headed by pianist Rob Bowman, she illustrates why Noël Coward and Cole Porter are her forte, of course, but half-talking her way through the Kurt Weill – Ogden Nash classic “That’s Him” is a graduate course in music education. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I’ve come to appreciate the Kagoshima dialect more since my first inauspicious exposure to it—middle-aged women have a wonderful, distinctive speech rhythm that sounds as if they are half-talking and half-singing—but it is still deucedly difficult to pick up. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The second he put it on my stereo and she started singing (OK, half-talking, half-snipping) "Needed new posters, so I bought 'em. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Martha] was more [demanding] than initially thought. [Barry] and Ted discussed how to up their game during the half time talk. ❋ The Curious Bibliophile (2019)