Example Sentences

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"So what they did was rush the half-trained force into the field and they were destroyed piecemeal."

From US News • Oct. 1, 2015

Wired to our iPods,we are your average, middle-aged bipeds: half-trained, stiff-hinged, pegging up the course,as likely overtaken by a pantomime horse as a Lady Gaga .

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2010

Even such Isolationist ostriches as Ohio's Senator Robert Taft admitted that there could be no fight against the logic of fully training the half-trained U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chances were that the half-trained unit could not get overseas in time to help with the Korean fighting.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Prophecy is like a half-trained mule,” he complained to Jorah Mormont.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin