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
  • There has been a plot against Sisi, in the form of a half-baked military coup, and George is right in the thick of it.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2025
  • 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
  • True, some chef may put a half-baked idea from ChatGPT on the menu, but plenty of chefs are already do this with their own half-baked ideas.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 2 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Settling on a half-baked version of both leaves it in an awkward, tonally messy middle-ground that misses the mark more often than not.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
  • 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
  • The Rainbow Tribe was ambitious, idealistic, loving, a bit half-baked, and far ahead of its time.
    Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • And in the past week, Trump's half-baked ideas about global trade have encountered the harsh reality of economics.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Some market watchers have called out the company’s AI efforts as half-baked, and one research firm called for Tim Cook to step aside, despite a historically strong track record.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 16 July 2025
  • Apple’s waiting until the tech is truly seamless, no half-baked experiments.
    Kim Komando The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 24 July 2025

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