half-formed
Example Sentences
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He also told Ball he may go back into the recording studio to work on "some things that are half-formed or were never finished".
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
It’s hard to know if Musk even believes the line himself, or if it just fell out of his mouth, a half-formed notion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2023
Overall, this is a novel probably best enjoyed by people with no experience of the podcast, or a complete experience of it; as the book itself suggests, half-formed remnants of memory are trouble.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2021
His eggs morph to fill out any half-formed meal idea or jumble of leftovers to become breakfast, lunch, and, most often, very late-night dinner.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2021
When I open a book, the words sort themselves into narrow-minded single file on the page; the mirror-image poems erase themselves half-formed in my mind.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
