half-finished
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Cranes hovered above half-finished buildings, near farmland and houses bearing Ohio State flags.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
The sun is setting over Ilubirin, a half-finished housing estate being constructed on sand-filled land reclaimed from the swampy Lagos lagoon.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
For sanity’s sake, I focus on one recipe at a time — bring it to the point of simmering, then move on — rather than juggling three half-finished soups and risking culinary chaos.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2025
The workshop itself offers a glimpse of the delicate craftmanship it takes to build a piano - specialist tools line the walls and two half-finished pianos expose a complicated internal network of strings and hammers.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025
“I’ll finish yours,” Rabia says, happily taking Sara’s half-finished drink.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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