A house is a house, even if it be only half-finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

A half-finished project lay strewn across his work bench.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down Cellar] Reference

They stopped and leaned against a half-finished metallic shed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Place on Earth] Reference

He has criticized half-finished fruit, and made a fatal mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Standing before the open doorway was an easel with a half-finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

In short, it must necessarily prove to be a half-finished history of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Farnborough and Kingsnorth, the latter in a half-finished condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference

We stood, surrounded by construction mess, in a half-finished kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four, in the Morning] Reference

Before she knew it, she was airborne, half-finished soda stuffed in the seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moving On] Reference

I had only half-finished my dinner, and it was time for me to be at the shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Ghost Stories] Reference

Today, the half-finished Taj Mahal on Route 50 is a source of some embarrassment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Did All The Money Go?] Reference

The half-finished strip of embroidery was laid within easy reach of hand and eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

Up above he saw the shelter of shadows from a cluster of half-finished buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Place on Earth] Reference

Upon an open desk lay a half-finished poem, obviously intended for no eyes save the writer's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

Lennon had left one half-finished verse behind: "Whatever happened to/the life that we once knew?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Together] Reference

'He did not die,' said the half-finished letter which his mother's hand had traced; 'he did not die.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

And lo! the cabin in the hollow had climbed the hill and swollen to a half-finished six-room cottage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

"Cobbler" Horn started, and a huge blot fell from his pen into the midst of his half-finished letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

Economic activity slowed precipitously and half-finished construction projects littered the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [TUSSLE AT THE TOP] Reference

     Ed shaded his eyes with his hand and looked across the street at the half-finished sky scraper.    From Wordnik.com.  [SHADOW TREASURES] Reference

"So, Mr. Trew, I packed him off about his business," she said, obviously continuing a half-finished recital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love at Paddington] Reference

Lady Stafford breaks in, impatiently, at this juncture, putting a stop to Mr. Potts's half-finished compliment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

"I was thinking just that very thing the other day," replied Jessie, slowly, putting down a half-finished candy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile Triumphant] Reference

So many sheets were covered with half-finished drawings and scribbled out ideas and nonsensical shapes and doodles.    From Wordnik.com.  [She's a Mystery Girl] Reference

Rosemary stabbed her long needles into her half-finished sweater and hung her knitting bag on the back of her chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosemary] Reference

They all stood around on the sloppy floor of the clay room as she undid the moist wrappings of her half-finished head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at School] Reference

I have no doubt that this criticism is just, in a certain sense, but American society is only a half-finished structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Times without number the writer has left his half-finished cigar in the hall-way before entering the customer's presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dollars and Sense] Reference

The discovery of the half-finished boat put aside all doubts as to the identity of their anchorage with that of Oxenham's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

Even Gerda, Forrester saw, had stopped, her face still, her hand lifted in a half-finished wave, the plastic cup forgotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan Passions] Reference

Tims rose quickly, and then perceived, lying on the writing-board, a directed envelope and a half-finished note to herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

Sachin Nakrani offers Reading tea, sympathy and his half-finished Nando's as they prepare for life without Gylfi Sigurdsson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obsequious To The Point Of Becoming A Human Suppository] Reference

I said to myself, as I returned to my half-finished sketch, "carried off again to luncheon by one of the dearest of little women.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference