A thought came to him then, a half-formed idea born of old experience and newly-acquired knowledge.

Like Kirk bet his, she almost snapped, but an idea, half-formed, began to come to her.

There was something about the situation that gave the lad a sudden half-formed idea.

There I paced up and down, my mind a bewildering turmoil of half-formed ideas.

Gomez glanced at the wall chronometer, an idea half-formed in her mind.

Now the half-formed ideas were blown away, and all she could think to say was - "So how safe is your own tail, hmm?

If you're a white college professor, you can float half-formed ideas and say controversial things; that's what you're paid to do.

He cleared up the arrears of his work with some half-formed idea that he might go away.

"It's still a half-baked or half-formed idea about multimedia," she said in an interview on Friday.

A half-formed idea about Monica was slowly taking shape in the back of his mind; a sculpture being carved from stone.