Example Sentences

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The dim home around them is scattered, too, with a half-made meal of bread and beetroot neglected near the sink.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022

His writings offer a personal notion of history as a series of tragic and haphazard upheavals, leaving "half-made" developing worlds in their wake.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2018

His former living room consists of one large table piled with bolts of cloth and a form with a half-made suit.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2012

It was also during these decades that VS Naipaul's withering accounts of "half-made" postcolonial societies came to be hugely influential.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2012

Bedrooms with half-made beds and clothes on the floor.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz