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[ US /ˈhæfˈweɪ/ ]
[ UK /hˈɑːfwe‍ɪ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. at a point midway between two extremes
    at the halfway mark
  2. including only half or a portion
    halfway measures
  3. equally distant from the extremes
ADVERB
  1. 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.
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