half-caught

Cal Galbraith shivered slightly as it died away in half-caught sobs.

The Wife of a King 2010

Cal Galbraith shivered slightly as it died away in half-caught sobs.

The Wife of a King 2010

The unknotting of a tension I didn't even know I carried around: a tension based in waiting for the bombs, in half-caught whispers about airplanes blowing up And he was on board with his pregnant fiancee!

Where were you when the Berlin Wall fell? shweta_narayan 2009

The consciousness of being half-caught in the act of peeping, joined to that native air of awkward bashfulness of which I am told the law will soon free me, kept me standing on the floor in some confusion; while the lady, disconcerted on her part, remained on the threshold of the room.

Redgauntlet 2008

Novel seeds can be made up of anything at all - fortuitously jumbled words of refrigerator poetry, a misheard song lyric, a magazine advertisement that catches your fancy, or a sentence fragment half-caught off the television.

Randomness.V 2006

Single until very recently, I'm still half-caught in loser-dogdom, along with my dearest friends.

LOSER DOG NATION 2007

He half-caught, half-hung on to her legs as they descended, finding the floor himself just in time to help her do the same.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

He half-caught, half-hung on to her legs as they descended, finding the floor himself just in time to help her do the same.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

Behind the cart was a wall of uncertain darkness speckled with little flames and alive with half-caught forms and faces and shadows.

Kim 2003

But then he began to hear something else in the sounds, half-caught words of tenderness, small furtive sounds of affirmation, that made him in some way not a voyeur, but a participant in their joining.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997