1. He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.

2. Joanna had made one or two half-hearted attempts to befriend Graham's young wife.

3. He made a half-hearted attempt to justify himself.

4. Congress has made half-hearted attempts at finance reform.

5. Government action has been half-hearted and uncoordinated.

6. Periodically, Congress has made half-hearted attempts at finance reform.

7. Their criticism, however, was half-hearted.

8. Discs' efforts in this direction have been decidedly half-hearted.

9. Nor was it a half-hearted anthropomorphism.

10. Yves had made a half-hearted attempt to be friendly.

11. Her apology was very half-hearted.

12. When I threw a half-hearted punch in his general direction(), he knocked me down.

13. But agile he isn't; witness this rather half-hearted attempt at the long jump.

14. She glanced through the window in a half-hearted attempt to tell the hour.

15. Later in the film, another teammate executes a half-hearted attempt to pull her aboard a fast-moving boat, leaving her behind.

16. The same half-hearted recognition of the concept of human capital can be detected in government education policies during the nineteenth century.

17. Khruschev's half-hearted attempt to oust Dej in 1957 encouraged him to look for allies to counter Soviet influence.

18. As he drew near she made a half-hearted move to rise.

19. The Conservative government has made a half-hearted attempt to tax company cars - half-hearted because it fears upsetting natural Tory voters.

20. For what did they know of her half-hearted attempts at abortion, the years' endurance.Sentence dictionary

21. His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later, were distinctly half-hearted.

22. We're also wondering why the university is now covering its butt legally with this half-hearted gesture.

23. Litigation is not for the faint-hearted - or the half-hearted.

24. A re-check should never be necessary, since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place.

25. Her responses to the usual chorus of cheery greetings were half-hearted; all she could focus on was Vitor d'Arcos.

26. Nothing much happens, and even the love story seems half-hearted.

27. Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 

28. My attempt to follow that with a lemon curd tart was a bit half-hearted.

29. Even since the war industrial relocation schemes for rural areas have been half-hearted and inadequate.

30. People are starting to criticize the government for its half-hearted approach to reform.

1. He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.

2. Joanna had made one or two half-hearted attempts to befriend Graham's young wife.

31. Sir Thomas Blount's half-hearted investigation into Amy's death was absolutely barren.

32. No applause interrupted the speech, and only brief, half-hearted, clapping was heard at the end.

33. There was a half-hearted and unconvincing attempt to justify fins.

34. There were various more or less half-hearted attempts to get over the finality of this selection.

35. Then, during late March and April, they made rather half-hearted and dilatory attempts to get agreement on this basis.

36. Bloomsbury House reacted sceptically with a half-hearted inquiry as to the Home Office attitude to refugee medical students.

37. But as long as this incremental approach remains half-hearted,(http:///half-hearted.html) wholesale abandonment of parts of the city begins to make grim sense.

38. Whereas the original boasted an eerie aura, the remix merely sounds like a half-hearted run through an old New Order B-side.

39. I'd only mentioned sheep in a half-hearted attempt to change the subject of conversation.

40. Indeed, half-hearted human-rights diplomacy can backfire nastily.

41. In truth, her application was a bit half-hearted.

42. Ironically, the Founder's use of this technique is so effective that his uke's attacks often appear half-hearted because they have been interrupted by his well-timed kiai.

43. He made a half-hearted stab at this in 2005, saying he should not be above criticism.

44. It was a half-hearted church instead of a whole-hearted church.

45. It is because you have never been whole-hearted to her and half-hearted love is worse than none.

46. Thank you for your husband so long for my half-hearted in fact, I feel that at the last change Oh you only love is just too stupid to pray for a miracle but also slightest effort.

47. In Buffalo or Missoula, a 20-inch snowfall might get a half-hearted shrug.