half-cooked
Example Sentences
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It’s bound to happen at some point: You’ve filled your Instant Pot, set the pressure to high, then opened the lid to find dinner only half cooked.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021
The onions in one pan are still white and stiff, and the ground beef in another is pink, half cooked.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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Unable to restrain himself, he caught up the smallest fish, half cooked, and bolted it down with such haste that he burnt his mouth.
From Into the Primitive by Bennett, Robert Ames
Salt it only when it is half cooked and do it moderately, because the beef is already tasty by itself.
From The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well by Gentile, Maria
Each can was hastily tested for flaws, and then sunk, with a hundred companions, into a vat of boiling water, there to be half cooked for a few minutes.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard