half-trained
- a word derived from train.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"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
Ship crews and assault troops alike, Morison explains, were in most cases only half-trained.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
“Prophecy is like a half-trained mule,” he complained to Jorah Mormont.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
