Example sentences for: half-hearted

How can you use “half-hearted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There was some half-hearted fighting between northerners and southerners for control of the property and lands left by the Spanish missionaries, half of which was meant to be returned to the Native Americans but never was.

  • "[B]land, half-hearted harmonizing ...

  • Clark's peers are suspicious of his pedigreed background and political connections; worse, NATO's half-hearted military strategy smells to them of another Vietnam.

  • Congress called for nothing less than the conquest of Canada, but Major-General Isaac Brock’s tiny Canadian force, allied with Chief Tecumseh’s Shawnee Indians, routed a half-hearted American invasion along the Niagara frontier.

  • Two rather half-hearted Spanish attempts to establish footholds on Guadeloupe were repulsed by the Caribs.


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