How to Use half-hearted in a Sentence

half-hearted

adjective

• This time the effort to line up looked half-hearted.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
• On the other side of the gym, the group had moved on to half-hearted dumbbell lunges.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
• Did anyone laugh, or was did someone give a half-hearted chuckle to be nice?
  — Anne Sugar, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Sometimes that means some half-hearted efforts against lesser teams.
  — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 31 May 2025
• Some, however, voiced praise for Williamson's speech — even if half-hearted.
  — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2023
• What would the effort to retain him have been worth if the effort was only half-hearted?
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
• No hybrid-shoe drag or half-hearted attempts to traverse iffy terrain here.
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• There’s been nothing half-hearted about what Kyle Davidson has done.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2023
• Their skating looked slow next to the Lightning, their puck battles were half-hearted and so on.
  — Aaron Portzline, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
• Nobody on screen is giving a half-hearted effort or going through the motions.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
• The arena goes icily silent, punctuated by some half-hearted boos as the clock drains down.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 1 May 2025
• But each effort is half-hearted and poorly formed outside of Yeoh herself.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
• For their part, Mal and May made half-hearted efforts at percussion.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• How can Ukraine win this fight with indecisive and half-hearted allies?
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
• Not a half-hearted attempt at relaxation while staying tethered to work.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
• His half-hearted attempt to apologize on a celebrity talk show only digs him in deeper.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 Oct. 2023
• But Dutton Ranch’s crime components feel half-hearted at first.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 15 May 2026
• As Ballew went into a euro-step, Bedgood’s half-hearted jogs back up the court slowed to a halt.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• What once was a half-hearted all-star football game few cared to watch is now a 7-on-7flag football game even fewer care about.
  — Greg Cote february 3, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2026
• The Cardinal cannot botch the hire or make a half-hearted commitment to football.
  — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
• In the case of settler violence, such efforts appear to be sporadic and half-hearted.
  — Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
• This half-hearted interest in naturalism hurts more than helps.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
• His recent half-hearted statement of support for Hogan in his Senate race doesn’t change any of this.
  — Frank Donatelli, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2024
• Trump’s longtime, but perhaps half-hearted, bid to purchase Greenland was rebuffed in his first term.
  — Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Dec. 2024
• Lindholm’s half-hearted clearing attempt during a penalty kill for too many men on the ice led to Doan’s net-front goal.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• Republicans said the fines should be clearer to avoid half-hearted enforcement.
  — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
• As punishment to their men for this half-hearted date, Alexa and Tayler spend their entire date talking about their boyfriends.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2025
• Ultimately, though, these proposals feel weak and half-hearted.
  — Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
• And Denny, who gets out of prison and back into Peggy’s life over her half-hearted objections.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• There would be criticism of the league’s half-hearted (at best) effort to increase the number of Black coaches.
  — Will Leitch, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2026