How To Use Half In A Sentence

Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
Divide half the mixture between 4 glass bowls, then sprinkle with a few fresh raspberries and a bit more crushed honeycomb. The Sun
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
A poor game was redeemed in the second half by a couple of superb goals from Anthony Edwards.

He is a bit upset by that, that anybody thought he was wanting to leave just for one half-time where I was more direct with the players than I have been for a few months.
On Tuesday, guard Jaymes Brooks was discussing how Smith has become the player who "fusses at us a lot, tries to get our spirits up, tries to tell us not to get our heads down in certain situations" when he also alluded to a speech Smith gave at halftime of that East Carolina game. Did Andre Smith save the Hokies' season?
It has half a bad novel inside it so I've never quite brought myself to throw it out.
The seeds were then cut in half longitudinally and deposited on a sterile Whatman No.1 filter paper impregnated with 1% tetrazolium chloride.
It explains why some people must have a full eight hours' kip while others get away with half that. The Sun
But after three years of frantic knitting, they decided to end the challenge, despite reaching halfway.
Once the egg is half-cooked, break the yolk and cut into the white with your spatula. Times, Sunday Times
If you're partial to poultry, the Nostos Special is a good bet at $7.95 for a grilled half chicken and $14.95 for a whole one.
It was also envisaged that they would play an advocacy and educational role on behalf of dementia sufferers throughout their area.
The braai was an oil drum cut in half lengthways, with cut-down pipes soldered to its underneath as legs. Rainbow’s End
I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
Peyton Manning will then 'spank' Drew Brees: Now if they just made half-and-half jerseys... Sad Week
Hopefully, with two and a half days work last week I made enough money to cover my costs.
The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden. Wildwood
Of the multitool's blades, the inch-and-a-half one is sharper than the three-inch one.
He came back to one of my classes and talked about all this stuff like how if you don't know what you're doing, you can just get sliced in half trying to hop the trains.
I was halfway through the gates before the first journalist reached me.
Allow the soup to sit for at least half an hour and then strain out all the vegetables to leave a clear broth. Times, Sunday Times
Doubtless his friends and family were working on his behalf and might well be involved with Peggy Say's campaign.
But when he returned to his room to give his other half the glad tidings, the housekeeper, who was listening to the story, interrupted to tell them that she knew of plenty of empty rooms.
Gradually pour half of hot milk mixture over yolks while whisking constantly.
Will you grind up a pound and a half of lean round steak for me?
By the term contracted foot, otherwise known as hoof-bound, is indicated a condition in which the foot, more especially the posterior half of it, is, or becomes, narrower from side to side than is normal. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
Simon ducked his head, cut a piece of ravioli in half with his fork and put it in his mouth.
And then, in the pouring rain, a half-dozen supporters stood around waiting for the media to show up.
A half-timbered family hotel with rooms off a creaky wooden balcony running round two sides of a courtyard.
The case - possibly the ultimate in town versus gown - revolves around a former manse on a quiet street in St Andrews, where students already occupy more than half the town centre accommodation.
The second half of the match comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value.
In the first half maybe evern longer, his art was much more clean, smooth, and linear, whereas much later, he developed the blockier style of Kirby. Top 100 Comic Book Runs #30-26 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Selected items are being sold at half price to woo customers into the store.
Hence my recommendation that you have half a pint of skimmed milk daily. Times, Sunday Times
A summer palace was half bosomed in trees.
Four guylines are attached half way up the pole sleeve to storm-lash the tent - great for very high winds.
It's great that she was able to tie up Super Smize's narrative, since half of these girls would have been so confused if they just encountered her in plainclothes without an explanation. Taking the boot off
The parties may authorize one or two persons to participate in arbitration proceedings on their behalf.
As a result, Arnold had a stake in the deals he was negotiating on behalf of the district.
It still wants half an hour till midnight.
At least half of the country's population voted, thereby validating the result.
My ships have now unloaded five thousand tons of kit for five and a half thousand troops -- that's nearly a ton each! ONE HUNDRED DAYS
This continued in to the dressing rooms at half-time where coach Delio Rossi had no choice but to hook the emotional Azzuri international, claiming he was 'inconsolable'. Which club has put the most final nails in managerial coffins? | The Knowledge
Lions string together eight successive phases on the last play of the half.
The variable stars in the above image are RR Lyrae variables, single stars that pulsate with periods of about half a day.
Anyhow it took Jae over an hour to cut my hair as I went from having curls half way down my back to wearing it cropped like a boy.
But it Hoolock Wu Wen-mei first half of yellow, white and the lower body more and more vertical profile, wing spot and more white, more mottled waist and tail-heavy.
For men, halfhearted comb-overs, plugs, weaves, and toupees are strictly forbidden and will be cause for harsh disciplinary action.
The adolescent and teenage birth rate has fallen by nearly half since 1992.
We are at least half way through the looking glass, on our way to utter chaos.
The voice was wheedling, half chanting, with a sickish thrill in it. DOLL'S EYES
We decamped to Porters, as usual, and took over half a dozen tables or so to drink the night away.
Stewart's pigeon house almost succumbed under a drift six feet high, and half the pigeons escaped where the weight of sand forced an opening in the galvo.
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
Wisconsin amassed 311 yards and a 17-0 lead in the first half, leaving little doubt that Alvarez would get to celebrate another big win. USATODAY.com
Let's assume someone is loading the revolver properly with the hammer at its half-cock position.
In a medium saucepan, bring the lobster stock reduction to a boil, add the cream, and simmer until reduced by half.
White cap set her up long hair and half of his face is obscured, but felt she must be very beautiful, breathtaking beauty!
Last time the IRS audited one of his businesses, he got a half-million-dollar refund. WORST FEARS REALIZED
In her studio in the loft at the top of the house, half-completed oil paintings sit alongside crayon masterpieces by her daughter.
Not just a gentle nibble as our Shetland sheep do lower down, but a strip of bark half an inch deep. Times, Sunday Times
A half-hardy annual, this variety produces tall stems topped with feathery pure-white flowers. Times, Sunday Times
'I'll run to them immediately,' cried she, 'for my half guinea is in an agony to be gone!' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
After a half hour of ponderous, laugh-free, heavy dialogue, I reclassified Prizzi's Honor as a serious mob movie.
I'm just still in a daze, wandering round the town centre at lunch, like some half-cut junkie, drunk on death.
Free-range pigs have shelters shaped as triangles or half circles, but most porkers were lurking inside; pine trees had snow plastered on the north side of their trunks and the hot sun on the south side.
Almost half a century later their privileged lifestyle and their aura of being an exclusive caste still attracted comment.
Half way down there is a scrog of wood, dwarf alders and hawthorn, which makes an arch over the path. Prester John
No issues with anything stopping working, and while the trackpad is small (hi, it's a computer that is less than half the sixe -- sideway -- of a MBP 17 ), it's extremely usable, and I haven't had a lick of trouble with it. The Problems With A Hackintosh Netbook, Six Months Out | Lifehacker Australia
Play was on the halfway line when the interval came, with France leading by two goal points.
And half of the nation's middle and high school teachers are not highly qualified to teach their subjects.
They may be square in shape like ravioli or in half-moon or oblong shapes.
To know the disease is half the cure.
The shirt was that little bit too pink, there was one button too many left carefully-casually undone and the tan was a shade and a half too dark.
The red notebook, of course, is only half the story, as any sensitive reader will understand.
Now he sits before a half-drunk coffee, a plate of untouched biscuits and an overflowing ashtray.
He dresses in half-mourning always, and never wears any jewelry, but strictly shuns all society, and prefers uncivilized regions. Erema
The best solution is to prepare the cuttings, then leave them in a cool, shady place for half an hour. The Sun
Half an hour later, Willie's nose zigzagged up a rise onto level patch of sun where, a hundred years ago, a house had stood.
Scarcely had I managed, helped by the second mate, Aaron Northrup, to lower away half-a-dozen barrels and kegs, when all cried from the boat that they were casting off. Chapter 19
A Republican assemblyman supported the bill, citing that half of California prisoners smoke and the development will cut health care costs.
Furthermore, those charged with supervising the company on our behalf and protecting our savings were either incapable or unable to force the insurer to live in the real world.
(Under the Indian constitution nontribal people are prohibited from directly acquiring land in certain parts of the country, so the government must obtain it on their behalf and sell it to the companies.) India's Dirty War
I am three and a half and I get fed up when I go for walks with my Mummy because the pavements are always so messy because of dog poo.
Following his defiance, KSM was subjected to a number of coercive interrogation techniques besides being waterboarded the 183 times: he was kept up for seven and a half days straight while diapered and shackled, and he was told that his kids, who were now being held in American custody, would be killed. The Longest War
I often think a parvenue, or half-bred woman, would burst if she had to do as I do. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
The first half had ended goalless with few clear-cut chances. Times, Sunday Times
Canadian English borrows words from other languages mainly through the ways of direct loan, half loan, sub tenancy and loan translation.
Sew the short ends together to form a circle then fold it in half with wrong sides together so the raw edges meet.
Should Bayard's measures seem radical, you can meet him halfway: treat yourself to a copy of P.
spoke a good word in his friend's behalf
Within a 17th-century half-timbered house, at Le Bistro de Claude, some of the most powerful people in the cognac business are partaking of seriously good cuisine. A Slow Path to Perfection
That last complaint is tragicomic given that Memphis schools typically rank among the nation's five worst with fewer than half of black males graduating from high school. Tennessee's Chamber Maids
The show's final half hour was almost faultless. Times, Sunday Times
White cap set her up long hair and half of his face is obscured, but felt she must be very beautiful, breathtaking beauty!
The Flemish, those residing in Flanders, the northern half of the country, speak Dutch.
Scott is heading for a CD prize after clocking up perfect days for all of this half-term.
A dirty orange glow escapes from half-open hatches, grilled vents, and small square windows of grimy glass, and the clangour of beaten metal can be heard far out into the endless snowstorm. Weapon Of Choice short story – excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
Every evergreen bough groaned with half a foot of snow; the streets and sidewalks had disappeared.
Half an hour later Duncan was no farther in his quest.
Half-an-hour later they were launching the canoe and loading up, while the storekeeper made jocular remarks about poor, weak mortals and the contagiousness of "stampedin 'fever. TOO MUCH GOLD
On behalf of tiny snipers, we are delighted to invite you to join an iterative process of hematoid symposia to be held at the hinges of daily life. Dear Carl
Next day put them in a saucepan with the same water, plus a half teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda.
Owen had a much more convincing penalty appeal just before half-time, but Andreas Dober somehow got away with a blatant, over-the-top foul.
Europcar, which has developed the system with UK-based digital agency Fortune Cookie, will equip the system at a number of major outlets elsewhere around Europe from the end of the first half of 2010.
And, despite some stout defence, a feature of York's game this season, they were unable to prevent scrum half Duffy from scoring from short range.
Every day we rough-house or play tag for a half hour, and on weekends we play for hours, walk around the mall or go to the park.
Astounded, I continued to adjust the hydroscope to a range incredible, turning the screw to focus at a mile and a half, at two miles, at two and a quarter, a half, three-quarters, three miles, three miles and a quarter -- click! Police!!!
So the second half was a pantomime, all fun and frolics and not very serious at all. Times, Sunday Times
Congress and Sanate (not that you would thind so from the last two and a half years) and they have a say in what he is going to do on the other hand with a Democratic majority in the houses and a Democratic President I can see where we are haded NO WHERE!!!!!!! Schneider: Voters say Clinton is more caring
A spider web, revealing its geometric perfection, hung half across one corner of the rude casement; the moonbeams without were individualized in fine filar delicacy, like the ravellings of a silver skein. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
There were three gunners, both front and rear of the plane and one in a bubble canopy half way down the fuselage.
The only other scores of a hard-fought, if unspectacular affair, arrived in the opening 13 minutes of the second half.
He states, that Mr. Hastings received for the appointment of Munny Begum to the rajahship two lacs of rupees, or about 22,000_l. _, and that he received in another gross sum one lac and a half of rupees: in all making three lac and a half, or about 36,000_l. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
Microsoft is aiming to have the initial releases of the new operating system available in the second half of 2001.
Half-pipe, tan shingles created a beautiful tessellation on the roof - one Theorton considered if he were ever to purchase his own home some time.
On myself, I use small monofilament fishing line and slip a half-hitch up close to the skin. What is the best way to remove a tick?
Richard inspected and rejected as poor towel substitutes a loofah, a half-empty bottle of shampoo, and a small yellow rubber duck. NEVERWHERE
I marinated the meat in red wine and then slowly grilled and ate it, accompanied by a light green salad and a half bottle of Country Beaujolais.
But still they were left clinging on for a point when their first-half display suggested it could have been all three. The Sun
When doctors practising under this new model start work each morning, about half of their appointment slots are open.
Two brothers differ by about half this amount. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
A halfway house between the theatre and cinema is possible. Olivier created one in his imaginative "Henry V" in 1945.
My father was quite a skinny, emaciated man, my brother a build a stark halfway between my father and I.
He grabbed a fistful of that lush cashew-colored hair that made Pink Jenny so popular, twisted her arm behind her in a vicious half nelson, and dragged her up to my face.
I forgot to tell you about Tom, who was the only son and had to sleep on the half loft above the kitchen.
It's kind of an open concept, like a half covered, tiered, outdoor auditorium.
- Are you codding me, I says, and the neck of the army Johnny Jameson half way already into his glass. Cyclops
She would also draft redundancy letters for the senior management on his behalf. Times, Sunday Times
Bit like now I suppose, sruggling in the half light trying to overcome an insurmountable problem while some treacly sod is in the background telling you how to go about it without having to demonstrate. You See The Trouble With Me « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
This is the picture today after more than half a century since Independence.
I turned up about half eleven and stayed until quarter to seven that night, and left others still playing.
And the only real way of pulling it off is by making it a comedy and basically making the audience cack themselves constantly for an hour and a half.
The electricity rates payable by householders was two and a half annas per unit.
I then waited half an hour until the bracelet was adjusted to my size.
Inbreeding may account for the fact that far fewer than half of all breeding mares foal each year.
This despite being part of a school system which demonstrably does not waste much of its money on bureaucracy and aggrandizement of its own honchos; the system has no trouble educating half of its students.
The tomato began to decompose after half a day in the sun.
A bold attempt is half success.
I had a feeling when we walked out, it was going to be a damned good game in the second half.
Trim the asparagus and snap in half. Times, Sunday Times
The orchestra plays Grieg and Moszkowski; a smell of chocolate is in the air; that tall, pink lieutenant over there, with his cropped head and his outstanding ears, his _backfisch_ waist and his mudscow feet -- that military gargoyle, half lout and half fop, offends the roving eye. Europe After 8:15
In a sweeping half-moon behind me, the rugged, unspoiled Inishowen Peninsula rolls out across this little known spear of North West Ireland.
And this doesn't included the sixty billion paperbacks printed every year, half of which are pulped and set to Japan to make toilet paper.
Edusha brewed some tea and found half a loaf of bread, some butter and cheese.
However, Nature, that at first sight appears so lovely, is on consideration almost always incomplete; moreover, there is no painting intertangled foliage without losing half its beauties. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art
Our attic suite was half the size of our Dublin terrace house, with a huge main bedroom and a comfortable twin room for the boys.
There were some stunningly ignorant comments on the wero, asking why important visitors to New Zealand were greeted by "a Maori New Zealander jumping around half naked".
Heat half the butter in a 30 cm frying pan with a heatproof handle.
People who wear them are not half-blind, they are 'geeky, but in a good way'. Times, Sunday Times
A terrible disservice is done to the half-million to one million non-Jewish parents helping to raise Jewish children whenever our community commissions yet another study to demonstrate how different the intermarried are from the in-married. Paul Golin: What Is the Biggest Divide in the Jewish Community?
At ten to four I was awoken by a blackcap hopping along the tin roof, then striking up the most exquisite warbling, at first utterly solo in the half-light, soon joined by other birds. Wildwood
The typical two-slice serving of plain, unadorned cheese pizza packs about a half a day's worth of saturated fat.
The second half of the chapter introduces electron diffraction with a focus on transmission electrons.
His approach putt went six feet past, and the return trickled by the cup, giving Irwin a half and clinching the cup for the home side.
Other location filming was under way across half the globe.
It's just coming up to half past twelve.
The second half was keenly fought, but neither side managed to score.
'It must be -- eight o'clock,' said the gasping voice -- '_eight o'clock_;' and the tone became a whisper, as though the idea thus half involuntarily revealed had been drawn jealously back into the strongholds of consciousness. Robert Elsmere
What a charming possession of himself, that he could be in such a brangle, as I may call it, and which might have had fatal consequences; yet be so wholly, and so soon, divested of the subject; and so infinitely agreeable upon half a score others, as they offered from one or other as we sat at tea! Sir Charles Grandison
Then they sent St. Edmund a message to say that he must give up half his kingdom and pay heavy taxes, or they would do the most terrible "frightfulness" throughout the land. Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light
He had woken at half past five in an almost empty hut, a reveille different from any other. THE OPEN DOOR
He arrived with a police escort shortly before half past nine.
Presiding over the amphitheatre was a beast-headed god, his head half turned away. Henry’s Demons
The company said it will give a 180-day nonrenewal notice to about 8,000 Florida policyholders beginning in March, and expects to fully withdraw from the market by the second half of 2012. Citing Sinkhole Claims, Mercury General Quits Florida Market
You may find yourself analyzing a long sentence with half a dozen unexplained ablatives left over at the end.
That was why he was shown a yellow card in the second half. Times, Sunday Times
Twenty-one percent of renters paid more than half of their incomes for rent in 1981.
Apparently, one anxious publisher phoned on behalf of a distinguished philosopher who'd misread the invitation letter and thought he was required to pay to take part.
Finally at half-past three I went upstairs to dress as a grammar-school arriviste. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Half a year later, the patients were reinvestigated.
The cast and crew were only given three and a half weeks to rehearse.
Slice the remainder in half lengthways and then into short fingers. Times, Sunday Times
The hall is shaded by a shallow half-hat of a roof which leaves a crescent-shaped interstice between it and the edge of the big carapace.
Reduced to half its original height, the industrial chimney serves as structural support for the roof and emergency exit footbridge.
Three parts" means three-quarters of a pint, and "skilly" is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water. The People of the Abyss
Canada, ranked 13th in the world, could only manage a penalty in each half by full-back Derek Daypuck.
I thought I could bestow beauty like a benediction and that your half-dark flesh would answer to the prayer.
Restarauteurs and cinema chains have an annoying habit of filling a glass half with Coke and half with ice, no doubt to make it go further.
More than half of the incidents involved vicious dogs. The Sun
He finally reached Bear Dooley's half-closed office door, which was burdened with numerous layers of thick brown paint. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
There was little to choose between the sides in the early stages of the second-half, but Humphreys bagged a snap drop-goal to edge the visitors back in front.
Some observed that basketball has now become more of a show than a sporting event, with dancing and music and a variety of interactive elements that fill every pregame, postgame, halftime and time-out.
Suddenly the lobby door crashed into the adjacent wall and stayed there, the knob half-buried in the Sheetrock. Least Resistance
A dot after a note ordinarily meant that it was half as long again as its normal value, but otherwise it simply signified that the notes on either side were irregular in some way. 5.
Under the new proposals, the degree of margin reduction for cane refiners is around two-and-a-half times greater than that for beet producers, so that the competitive imbalance between beet and cane producers would be widened.
One rubber-tyred option was prematurely discarded by a now-disgraced former mayor as not developed enough, even though the cost would have been half that of lrt. Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog
Half an hour is five minutes longer than it used to take from the flat.
The first time Julie saw Luke was some time in 1985. She was sitting in the removal van, half asleep. GOING OUT
Most of the office space that appears on the market in the second half is also in the suburbs of Sofia.
Article 2 These Measures shall apply to the accounting treatments in the local general fiscal budget accounting for the bonds issued by the Ministry of Finance on behalf of local governments.
In 1974, Lawrence Stone identified "the absence of charismatic leadership" during Edward VI's reign as one of the causes for political instability yet the behavior of Mary's household suggests that Catholics, in particular the Catholic dependents associated with Mary's household, had found in the princess householder a leader of sufficient thaumaturgical charisma that they were willing to risk death on her behalf. 95 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
My father was halfway through his third pint and was becoming increasingly voluble when I spotted a red car turning into the road. Times, Sunday Times
The officers 'servants, commonly called "batmen," were unfortunate rankers who, in moments of weakness, had sold themselves into slavery for half a crown per week. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
Chop the half onion thinly and fry under low heat so that it becomes soft and translucent. Times, Sunday Times
Dundee began to disappear behind a white veil while Chick drank his way steadily down the half-bottle.
'LBJ made it very clear a half a loaf is better than no loaf at all,' Clyburn said Wednesday. Math check (Jack Bog's Blog)
He rears the bull calves to a year-and-a-half and the heifer calves to two-year-olds.

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