half-remembered
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The folk hero of the American Revolution was only half-remembered in Massachusetts and almost totally forgotten everywhere else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
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
We played the Steinway in the middle of the night, filling the darkness with half-remembered music, alarming the cats and terrifying the hired men.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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