half-done

adjective

(of a job, task, project, etc) only partially completed

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How to use half-done in a sentence

Much of the working day is spent papering over a job half done from the day before.
What’s Behind the Obamacare Cock-Up | Tina Brown | October 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Garnache cut him short before he had half done, announced his name and bade him convey it to Rabecque.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
When it is half done, mince it with the bacon, season, and add half a clove of garlic and pound all smoothly in a mortar.
Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode | Harriet A. de Salis
In short, they used all the jewels the sultan had, and borrowed of the vizier, but yet the work was not half done.
The Arabian Nights | Unknown
I am writing a companion piece to 'The Prince and the Pauper', which is half done & will make 200,000 words.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine

I trembled lest I should fall in love with this girl, and that very fear had already half done the business.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques Rousseau

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