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
• This leads to half-baked plans, dysfunction and the unhoused community paying the price.
  — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Morgan Wallen, fresh from God’s country, can’t feign enthusiasm on his recent half-baked singles.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2025