half-cooked
Example Sentences
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I continued to gnaw on the half-cooked onion pieces.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2021
When she finally showed up, she burst through the door with a huge smile on her face, lugging her sweet potatoes and a half-cooked turkey leg.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2019
Campylobacter, salmonella’s sneaky cousin, attacks two to five days after a half-cooked turkey burger goes down the hatch.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2014
The same ball caught behind, or gloved to short-leg, and the moment of enduring genius is only half-cooked: bowled it had to be.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013
I look down at my supper plate, fried beets swimming in a pool of bright pink juice, half-cooked hash browns turned pink where they border the beets and cold oatmeal.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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