How to Use half-baked in a Sentence

half-baked

adjective
  • Even after four years in the oven, the might still be coming out half-baked.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The game still feels quite awkward at times, and it's still plagued by some half-baked ideas.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2023
  • All that’s left is a wasteland of half-baked ideas searching for a home.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Isn’t there someone in his camp who can tell him these jokes are half-baked?
    — William Earl, Variety, 27 Dec. 2023
  • To have two or three people from the movie come into this world looks a little half-baked.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Tom’s half-baked plan is to take revenge by stealing cash-advance checks from the banker’s trash.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • Random, half-baked Rust Cohle Easter Eggs were bad enough.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Anxious interactions prompt a half-baked scheme as the moon and Mars square off.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Just an hour earlier, this would’ve sounded like half-baked Zen.
    — Johannes Lichtman, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2024
  • My Memorial Day weekend plans are half-baked, and my luggage set is nowhere near packed.
    — Halie Lesavage, harpersbazaar.com, 18 May 2023
  • Some other half-baked food pun that no one in their right mind would ever share with the general public?
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Sure, his lyrics are half-baked, but that’s fine because there is so much emotion everywhere else.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2024
  • There's no speaker, no Google Assistant, and the fitness features feel half-baked.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Many critics dismissed it as too frustrating and half-baked though.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Misspellings, poor grammar and half-baked designs and logos were keys to phishing.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The pita was toasty but soft, arriving half-baked and frozen from Angel’s Bakery in Israel and finished fresh in the oven at the restaurant.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • The culprit is a half-baked screenplay that plays it too loose and falls short of being consistently funny.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The attacks often felt rather simple in scope, half-baked and frustrating to deal with, with luck driving my success far more than skill.
    — Sarah Thwaites, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2025
  • References to British colonialism were also half-baked, some critics said at the time.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • All necessary praise aside, one of the great joys of tracing Taylor Swift's arc is seeing her sound bleed across genres, from country and pop to (half-baked) hip-hop and folk and back.
    — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Glitches, bugs and half-baked features are all part of the experience, and many will only work with other beta testers.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • The friends’ conversation flowed from half-baked business ideas to a debate over who would win in a fight between a triceratops and a woolly mammoth.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • There will continue to be developments in the space, but gone are the days of companies touting their half-baked metaverse projects.
    — Schuyler Moore, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Subject-matter experts provide half-baked drafts or expect marketing teams to fill in the gaps.
    — Rhea Wessel, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Dynasty Warriors: Origins is an ambitious revival that makes for a good starting point for the series, even when some of its new ideas feel half-baked.
    — Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
  • So why does Ethereum continue to embrace these half-baked L2 solutions?
    — Kathleen Breitman, Fortune Crypto, 5 Apr. 2023
  • These Bruins were half-baked — great offense, dreadful defense.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Huerta is beyond worthy of recognition, but this section felt rushed and half-baked, the photographs of Huerta stiff and posed.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 14 May 2024
  • Certain lines rely on overly clunky allusions, half-baked metaphors, or both.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2024
  • All while half-baked visions promise salvation that may never come.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024

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