Example Sentences

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It was like being back at Jordan, being quizzed on something she’d been half-taught, “Sort of,” she said.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Thus hath the parable of actual life led this zealous but half-taught youth to enter into the higher truth. 

From More Bywords by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The vibrant relief in her companion's voice stirred her, and she realised once more that in choosing this half-taught girl, at least, Gregory had acted with wholly unusual wisdom.

From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus

A half-taught college boy, in the pride of his little learning and stubborn opinions, is little better than an innocent.

From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander

The vibrant relief in her companion’s voice stirred her, and she realized once more that in choosing this half-taught girl Gregory had acted with a wholly unusual wisdom.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold