half-crushed

In classic Steinhilber style, it's made from half-crushed water bottles.

Gopnik's Daily Pic: Dan Steinhilber Blake Gopnik 2010

Packs had been placed alongside fallen logs draped with half-crushed vines.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Packs had been placed alongside fallen logs draped with half-crushed vines.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

It's the half-crushed insect trying to wheedle its feeler through the windshield, its lips moving the whole time.

Baffled Cooper Renner 2011

I cast about our dingy compartment, giving each battered piece of equipment and dirty sock and empty half-crushed drinking bulb a good long look, as if one might stand up and admit its guilt if I stared hard enough.

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I looked around and even on the empty or half-crushed cans at the recycling center the curious "seal" was on a good share of them.

Yoani Sanchez: As They Used to Say in the USSR: We Pretend To Work and They Pretend To Pay Us 2010

I looked around and even on the empty or half-crushed cans at the recycling center the curious "seal" was on a good share of them.

Yoani Sanchez: As They Used to Say in the USSR: We Pretend To Work and They Pretend To Pay Us 2010

It was filled with garbage cans and half-crushed boxes from the food vendors, rife with the smell of garbage, a fitting place for Gavino to end his stay in this world.

Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010

Parisi lit a cigarette and held the filter half-crushed between his molars.

The Big Scam Paul Lindsay 2005

She was dressed in an odd assortment of clothes: a torn flamenco skirt, an old black sweater with a fake-fur collar, and a half-crushed satiny top hat.

She’s Got the Beat NANCY KRULIK 2005