half-trained

They were inexperienced and only half-trained, their coven had just been destroyed, and they were exhausted and wounded, but they were not cowards, and they were not going to give up.

Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

It was a mixture of regulars half-trained and ill-disciplined, and colonials who did not know what to expect, supported by a train of wagons too light to carry their loads, pulled by horses too small to haul them.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

It was a mixture of regulars half-trained and ill-disciplined, and colonials who did not know what to expect, supported by a train of wagons too light to carry their loads, pulled by horses too small to haul them.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

It was a mixture of regulars half-trained and ill-disciplined, and colonials who did not know what to expect, supported by a train of wagons too light to carry their loads, pulled by horses too small to haul them.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

It was a mixture of regulars half-trained and ill-disciplined, and colonials who did not know what to expect, supported by a train of wagons too light to carry their loads, pulled by horses too small to haul them.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Powerful but half-trained mages were partnered with educated but less powerful mages, with the former working through the latter, as Elspeth had worked in partnership with Need.

Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

He might not be able to help Idalia in her work right now-he was only a half-trained Wildmage, after all-but there was no reason for him to be completely idle.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

But they had a dark color that, to Loretta's half-trained eye, suggested decay.

One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I 2010

Gisell was only half-trained, but would certainly be Master rank when she finally completed her schooling.

Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

When I come home late at night from banquets, from scientific societies, from social get-togethers, a small, half-trained female chimpanzee is waiting for me, and I have a good time with her in apish fashion.

The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000