half-remembered

British  

adjective

1. (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled

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Example Sentences

Her lyrics are pulled from half-remembered dreams, speaking of herself in immersive, surreal contradiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 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

This and other touches keep suggesting half-remembered bits and bobs from indie crime capers and sketch shows of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022

“Trust,” by contrast, works like a half-remembered nightmare, its shadows more frightening than its monsters.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2021

I tried to step away and look at it from a distance of words read in books, half-remembered.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison