half-finished
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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And when you try to do all three at once, it’s very easy to lose momentum and end up surrounded by a constellation of half-finished projects.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
The sun is setting over Ilubirin, a half-finished housing estate being constructed on sand-filled land reclaimed from the swampy Lagos lagoon.
From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025
None of this prevents “Champagne Problems” from being as sticky as a half-finished candy cane.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
The workshop itself offers a glimpse of the delicate craftmanship it takes to build a piano - specialist tools line the walls and two half-finished pianos expose a complicated internal network of strings and hammers.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025
Alarmed by Massasoit’s sudden entrance, the Europeans withdrew to the hill on the opposite bank, where they had emplaced their few cannons behind a half-finished stockade.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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