[
US
/ˈhæfˈweɪ/
]
[ UK /hˈɑːfweɪ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɑːfweɪ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
at a point midway between two extremes
at the halfway mark -
including only half or a portion
halfway measures - equally distant from the extremes
ADVERB
-
at half the distance; at the middle
he was halfway down the ladder when he fell
How To Use halfway In A Sentence
- Then there are the ruins of Dura-Europos, a Parthian caravan center founded in 300 B.C., halfway between Syria and Mesopotamia and known as the "Pompeii of the East.
- Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
- Your essay gets a bit confused halfway through when you introduce too many ideas at once.
- You may think this trivial; the point is that if I'd mounted Miss Fanny that day I daresay I'd have lost interest in her -- at all events I'd have been less concerned to please her later, and would have avoided a great deal of sorrow, and being chased and bullyragged halfway round the world. Flash For Freedom
- I dreamt last night that I went out for a drink with biscuitware and that halfway through the night he suddenly jumped up from his seat to perform an all-singing all-dancing musical number, accompanied by a well-rehearsed large chorus all in spangly costume. The One That's Still Making Me Chuckle
- But after three years of frantic knitting, they decided to end the challenge, despite reaching halfway.
- 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.
- I was halfway through the gates before the first journalist reached me.
- Play was on the halfway line when the interval came, with France leading by two goal points.
- Should Bayard's measures seem radical, you can meet him halfway: treat yourself to a copy of P.