half-formed

Example Sentences

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Anat let go of Molly’s arm, but it seemed only reluctantly, while Molly hung back, muttering half-formed excuses to her friends about her vocal nodes, which they mostly couldn’t hear anyway over the sounds of the party.

From Literature

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sounded frustrated by the solicitor general’s hodgepodge of half-formed arguments, too, and cut through them with a poison dart of a question: “Can you point to any other place in the code, any other time in history, where that phrase together—‘regulate importation’—has been used to confer tariff-imposing authority?”

From Slate

In 1971, Bradwell placed an advert in Time Out magazine which read, "Half-formed theatre company seeks other half" as he looked to link up with other aspiring artists.

From BBC

We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl.

From Salon

We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl that’s been crusted over by the steady gnawing of time.

From Salon