One-half

"One-half" in a Sentence (11 examples)

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.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

In 1986, four and one-half years after visiting Saturn, Voyager 2 made the first close-up survey of Uranus.

One-third is less than one-half.

The reciprocal of one-half is two.

The human brain uses one-half of all the sugar in the body.

Beat the yolks of four eggs and add one-half cup of sugar.

Core and peel six apples and cook in one and one-half cups of sugar and two cups of water.

Several other herbs also showed strong antioxidant activity. They include bay and dill. However, their strength was about one-half to one-third as strong as that of the three kinds of oregano. Generally, the herbs used as medicines were low in antioxidant activity. The scientists say this suggests that any health effects from such herbs resulted mostly from other actions in the body.

Approximately one-half of 1% of the planet’s water is drinkable, and we use that water for much more than drinking—showering, brushing our teeth, watering our grass, etc.

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As the series is extended to ever higher numbers, the fraction fluctuates among values a little greater than or equal to one-half, but the general trend moves closer and closer to exactly one-half.

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