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half-term

NOUN
  1. a short vacation about halfway through a school term
    he came to visit at half-term

How To Use half-term In A Sentence

  • The rink offers daily courses for the whole of half-term week. The Sun
  • Lately, Scotland has had something of a half-term breather but swine flu has been quick to catch-up. Whitehaven News headlines
  • There's a touch of charm, but the cliched storytelling lacks that vital spark to send it soaring above the obligatory half-term movies.
  • I visited I-knit as a half-term treat a few weeks ago and was impressed by the range of publications and impedimenta on sale, more really than the yarn. - for example, a shawl pin with an ebony stick to secure it. St Patrick's Day
  • Much of last week, for Britain, was wasted while David Cameron pottered around the Middle East with a posse of arms manufacturers and Nick Clegg strapped his half-term skis on. Libya: Gaddafi's cronies must desert or be damned | Observer editorial
  • Half-term was mind-numbingly unproductive in terms of writing, perhaps because I'm still shagged out after the house move.
  • The anonymous blogger of "Sex At Oxbridge" describes herself as a "fairly attractive and highly intelligent Oxbridge student currently shagging my way through the half-term hump". Medindia Health News
  • Package holidays cost on average a third more during school summer holidays and the price of flights increases fourfold in the spring half-term. Times, Sunday Times
  • THIS school half-term will see thousands of families jetting off to catch the last of the short haul sun. The Sun
  • A half-term governor and failed vice presidential candidate used gunsights to mark legislative districts targeted for defeat. Norm Stamper: "Please Don't Be Mad at Me"
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