half-remembered
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Dispatches from a saner time of millennial life like “Up Down” and “Can’t Believe It” landed like an envelope of Instax photos from a half-remembered house party.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
I didn't want to hear the pseudo-intellectual assertion that you must "separate the art from the artist" in response, a claim rooted in half-remembered English lit classes.
From Salon • Oct. 7, 2022
“Trust,” by contrast, works like a half-remembered nightmare, its shadows more frightening than its monsters.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021
This had been the half-remembered thing hovering on the edge of my awareness since I had heard Skarpi’s story.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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