Therefore, I was not surprised when, with only a halfhearted protest, he assented to Vance's proposal to revisit the Odell apartment.

He groaned and tried to halt her progress, but his protests, halfhearted to begin with, grew increasingly feeble as she came closer to her intended goal.

Father Abbot Markwart chuckled snidely throughout Dobrinion's halfhearted protest.

The broadcast stated that the West stood by and issued only "halfhearted protests".

Her halfhearted protest turned into total response.

Ignoring her halfhearted protests, he hooked her by the arm and eased her to her feet.

He put up a halfhearted protest, but he knew she was capable of following through on her threats, so he acquiesced in the end.

Shadow paid for his own breakfast and, over Chad Mulligan's halfhearted protests, both hot chocolates.

"Right," Jack said with an evil smirk, while Freddy spluttered a halfhearted protest.

Arian's halfhearted protest melted to a moan of raw pleasure as he drew her nipple into his mouth, suckling fiercely, not as a child, but as a man - with a man's formidable hungers and undeniable needs.