half-raw

Example Sentences

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But it was thick in the pan, and I worried a soggy layer of half-raw dough would ruin it, as it always ruins deep-dish pizzas for me.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2020

I brown the sausage in a pan and put it in the sauce half-raw.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

In the half-raw, half-coded patois some military men often favor, Hayden told Time in a lengthy interview last month that only a strong central authority would make the intelligence agencies work together.

From Time Magazine Archive

He accepted a piece of half-raw meat and gnawed it like a wolf.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

He found the boy busily employed in chewing a piece of half-raw meat, and giving the chewed morsels to the lately broken-in dog; the huntsman affirmed that that would attach the dog to him inseparably.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold