Sentence Composing: Semicolons

#061  I try to see only the good in him; I try.

#062  Food is a huge problem; so is the situation with the water.

#063  The sound was like the scream of a rabbit caught in an owl’s talons ; my flesh crawled.

#064  He has the audience from the get-go, though; I can hear them laughing, shouting out.

#065  That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk if you want.

#066  Today was the day; today was the day when they would realize what Zaphod had been up to.

#067  Ender did not like to cry and rarely did; now, in less than a day, he had done it three times.

#068  Looking into her eyes was like looking out of a grave from the inside; I was buried in the terror and despair and agony of her gaze.

#069  With the force of a bullet, the wad of chewing gum shot out of the keyhole and straight down Peeve’s left nostril; he whirled upright and zoomed away, cursing.

#070  Parzival, the #1 on the scoreboard, was world famous, and had never felt this way before, even when he played Aech; Art3mis, his rival, was level 50, with money to burn and experience galore.