half-formed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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“I’ve got some things that are half-formed or were never finished,” Collins says, “and a couple of things that were finished, which I like, so you know — maybe life in the old dog. Yeah. You’ll see.”
From Los Angeles Times
Anat let go of Molly’s arm, but it seemed only reluctantly, while Molly hung back, muttering half-formed excuses to her friends about her vocal nodes, which they mostly couldn’t hear anyway over the sounds of the party.
From Literature
Justice Amy Coney Barrett sounded frustrated by the solicitor general’s hodgepodge of half-formed arguments, too, and cut through them with a poison dart of a question: “Can you point to any other place in the code, any other time in history, where that phrase together—‘regulate importation’—has been used to confer tariff-imposing authority?”
From Slate
In 1971, Bradwell placed an advert in Time Out magazine which read, "Half-formed theatre company seeks other half" as he looked to link up with other aspiring artists.
From BBC
We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl.
From Salon
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