When he took them off, his face looked half-built. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
Thy cot's half-built, fair wethers range this wold. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
The whole place looked like a half-built golf course. From Wordnik.com. [One Shot]
Now the site of the half-built, bankrupt Sienna Court. From Wordnik.com. [How Has the Recession Affected Your Jewelry and Cruise Ship Needs?] Reference
Construction cranes tower over half-built skyscrapers. From Wordnik.com. [Iran Follies] Reference
He showed me where it was, with the pump only half-built. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Anatoly Boiko A few feet away, his half-built house is rising. From Wordnik.com. [Russia, a Lumbering Giant, Asks:] Reference
They haunted me as I stalked the halls of his half-built palace. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
There's an artificial world, half-built, out beyond Mars someplace. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]
Schools are shut, parks close down, highway medians remain half-built. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Laermer: My List Of Next Year's "Predictions" (If Things Get Really Bad)] Reference
I've got a half-built bridge in Alaska you might be interested in buying. From Wordnik.com. [Reid And Durbin: No Seating Of Burris Yet -- But We Really Like Him] Reference
The half-built engine is as useless and as powerless as so much crude iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference
They came to a new clearing with a half-built big house in the middle of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
My platoon was ordered to commandeer the empty shell of a half-built mansion. From Wordnik.com. [Haim Watzman: Beirut Nostalgia] Reference
A secondary market quickly emerged even for half-built or unbuilt properties. From Wordnik.com. [Dubai Gets $10 Billion Bailout to Ease Debt] Reference
This was at that time half-built up, and boarded, with a hollow large enough to hold. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
They haven't seen him for five weeks, and we're sitting there with a half-built garage. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Went Underground]
They rumbled by train up to a half-built railway station outside the demilitarized zone. From Wordnik.com. [No Pain, No Gain?] Reference
Mr. Kalyanaraman has also halted construction on a new spinning mill, leaving it half-built. From Wordnik.com. [India's Textile Industry Unravels] Reference
They also stripped the dockyard of stores and destroyed the half-built ships on the slipways. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Prey]
Some neighborhoods are dotted with half-built brick homes, already being reclaimed by the brush. From Wordnik.com. [Zambia's Economy Falls With Price of Copper] Reference
They leave half-built hulking structures unfinished with no regard for aesthetics or fire safety. From Wordnik.com. [Tina Traster: One's Man's Hubris Is Another Man's Flood] Reference
The half-built computers are then shipped to one of Dell's own plants where assembly is completed. From Wordnik.com. [Dell Plans to Sell Factories] Reference
Now, says Ayres, his half-built planes "are just sitting there on the assembly line" gathering dust. From Wordnik.com. [Colombia: Man Without A Plan] Reference
That afternoon he crossed the Clear Fork of the Brazos and passed a half-built cabin, abandoned and empty. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Behind the sign lies a messy scrub of beach and desert, pockmarked with a few half-built houses on stilts. From Wordnik.com. [El Alamein's new desert battle as mine victims search for justice] Reference
It was waiting for the owner, who was at a little distance inspecting the progress of a half-built farm-house. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
Pretty soon she leaves the thing half-built and comes around to my side of the castle and lies down at my side. From Wordnik.com. [Manure] Reference
Pulling up alongside northbound I-95, Peters gets out to size up a half-built ICC bridge jutting over the interstate. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road: Maryland's Intercounty Connector highway is in the hands of Melinda Peters] Reference
Wangling his way on to a working party, he had drifted into one of the half-built huts and hidden in some palliasses. From Wordnik.com. [THE GREAT ESCAPE]
It seemed like many years since he had played in the half-built sun while his mother ordered construction crews about. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
In 1999, Bove famously trashed a half-built McDonald's in southern France in protest of America's fast-food imperialism. From Wordnik.com. [Like Father, Unlike Son] Reference
We live in that crappy-looking trailer you probably saw on your way up -- the one with the half-built log cabin next to it. From Wordnik.com. [Never Come Down]
Well, Blessing was found by a construction crew that was framing in some houses in this half-built tract at the edge of town. From Wordnik.com. [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]
And then there's Argentina: still suffering from the consequences of economic collapse, still a country that feels half-built. From Wordnik.com. [Diego Maradona Lives to Fight Another Day] Reference
The crisis goes back to the legendary battle of Guadalcanal, when the United States captured a half-built airstrip from Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels Of The Pacific] Reference
Mr. Heinen allowed Emirates 'auditors into A380 factories to examine half-built planes, quiz designers and talk to assembly workers. From Wordnik.com. [When Rebuilding Confidence] Reference
The second would be to call out everything we've got, including every half-built ship on Bennett able to fly, and declare martial law. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
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