half-cooked

Example Sentences

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Would Mark Zuckerberg also feed a dinner guest a half-cooked piece of salmon to show off the existence of said salmon?

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2022

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

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