half-frozen

The water had been removed from the pool, but leaves clotted the drains and rain had formed a half-frozen crust beneath the diving board.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

Round, about half the size of a soccer field, the pond looked as it had twelve years before, but the collar of vegetation had tightened around it, the circle of evergreens growing inward, encroaching on its edge, casting long shadows on its half-frozen surface.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

The sulky crackling of half-frozen hides told him that the chief's moose-skin lodge had been struck, and even then was being rammed and jammed into portable compass.

THE LAW OF LIFE 2010

Round, about half the size of a soccer field, the pond looked as it had twelve years before, but the collar of vegetation had tightened around it, the circle of evergreens growing inward, encroaching on its edge, casting long shadows on its half-frozen surface.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

Beneath the snow the ground was wet, half-frozen mud.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

As I crunched my way through harvested, half-frozen cornstalks, the little ICBM roared to life and shot out a putrid, sulfuric haze of smoke.

Another Body Ryan Amfahr Longhorn 2011

Beneath the snow the ground was wet, half-frozen mud.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Beneath the snow the ground was wet, half-frozen mud.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

He and Connie had laughed it up in the driveway, ending up kissing like old times sitting on the back stoop under starlight, half-frozen.

Blues Machine Bill Roorbach 2012

Beneath the snow the ground was wet, half-frozen mud.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011