Half

//hɑːf//

"Half" in a Sentence (47 examples)

Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.

Half an eye is very useful actually, because an animal can see half of another animal, which wants to eat it, and can get out of the way, and it will eat the animal, which has only one-half eye or only 49% of an eye, because this to it will not be enough, and the animal, which was eaten up, will have no children, because it is dead.

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

Your camera is only half the size of mine.

The price of the stock declined by half in a month.

The price of stock declined by half in a month.

Well begun is half done.

I'll rely on my father for half of my tuition.

Half of the students are absent.

Half the students were absent.

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I ate the smaller half of the apple.

You don’t know the half of it.

Of the passengers on the plane, half were English.

The cake was delicious: half was vanilla and half was chocolate.

Half (of) my friends live abroad.

I’ve bought some chocolate. You can have half.

One and a half miles equals a mile and a half.

Not half his riches known, and yet despised.

I and he, / Brothers in Art; a friendship so complete / Portion'd in halves between us, […]

Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation.

The Biden administration finalized the first national standard to limit dangerous “forever chemicals” found in nearly half of the drinking water in the United States.

An association football match usually consists of two halves of 45 minutes each.

However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.

He came back with a pint of Guinness for me and a half of bitter for Wendy.

I accepted a half of bitter from him.

I went to the bar where I bought a pint and two large brandies. ... "Not brandy," she replied, "but I could use a long drink - maybe a half of lager."

Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.

Three-quarters minus a quarter is a half.

So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father.

Tonight, we're offering the last of the Walking Liberty Halves for awhile:^([sic])

a half kilo

a half hour

a half dollar

a half truth

Assumed from thence a half-consent.

A half brother or half sister

A half uncle or half aunt or half cousin

half-colored

half persuaded

half conscious

He does sometimes half wish to change his life, but it is too difficult.

Half loth and half consenting.

Their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod.

I sometimes hold it half a sin ⁠To put in words the grief I feel; ⁠For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

To be a King, is halfe to bee a God.

The time is 9:30; it is half nine.

In some countries, "half seven" means 6:30.

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