half-done
Example Sentences
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In Poeni you can see where some of that ends up, in all the half-done new homes.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2025
The book is more than half-done, according to Dissanayake, and friends hope to dig into her computer files to see if there is a way to complete it.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2021
But I would then remind myself that if we are going to look at what a true apology is, then it cannot be half-done.
From Salon • Jul. 11, 2019
Just as a half-done cake falls in the center when bumped, the middle of the cookie collapses, pushing barely-baked dough out to the edges.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2017
There was a half-done puzzle on the table in front of her, but she had no interest in fitting the rest of the pieces together.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.