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Abandoned strollers and empty lawn chairs, some with half-consumed drinks in the cupholders, were lined up along the sidewalk.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2022

She refrigerates half-consumed bottles, determined never to waste a drop.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2022

The bats, messy eaters, dropped their half-consumed meals.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2021

Still, let’s not deny the right of a free people to express their opinions about the products they’ve consumed, or half-consumed, or barely even consumed, or merely thought about consuming.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2019

Then, having removed the cloths in which they had been wrapped, and which were half-consumed from age and rottenness, they covered them with other and more handsome palls, and bound them with linen bands.

From The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See by Withers, Hartley