Half means: One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided. Related words include whole or incomplete. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Half in practice.
Half in a sentence
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Half meaning
- One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
- One of two equal periods into which a game is divided.
Synonyms of Half
Example sentences (20)
City regrouped and dominated the rest of the opening half, tying it up with Stroud’s goal in first-half stoppage time.
Cammy Ross doubled the advantage midway through the half to give the home side a comfortable lead at half time.
Aron Donnum gave the hosts the lead in the first half before Thijs Dallinga doubled the score the other side of half time.
Another erected in Par indicates that Par Beach is half a mile away with Charlestown also half a mile away.
By 2019, roughly half of first births happened before marriage — and half of those were between couples who lived together.
And part of it is you have to bring – if it’s a $100,000 CD, you have to bring half – at least half of it.
After a poor first half of 2022, the company posted relatively better results in the year’s second half.
A little more than half of the patients had right-sided weakness (limb and facial) with over half of them also having aphasia.
Add potatoes to the frying pan with half of the cooked bacon and half of the parsley mix thoroughly.
After a goal-less first half, Ntege’s effort into the ground saw Marshall help on but the flick went wide early in the second half.
After a positive first half, the number eight came off for blood only minutes into the second half.
At times, it felt like they shot the lights out when they held a small first half lead that burgeoned even more in the second half.
Around half comes from zinc mining, half from coal - but it's fly ash from having burnt the coal.
As you can see from our results, we have a great deal of momentum in the first half of 2023 heading into the second half of the year.
A spokesperson for Dorset Police said the vehicle was half in a ditch and half on the road.
Browns star defensive end — who had 2.5 sacks in the first half — sacked both the Titans quarterback and left tackle to end the first half.
Classes used to be half in English and half in Spanish in dual-language schools like Pugh.
As electioneering gets into full swing, rest assured, council management, will be taken to task over half-finished and half-arsed jobs aplenty.
After that, it’s going to be Letang on the left half-wall, Malkin on the right half-wall, Crosby and (when he’s healthy) Jake Guentzel underneath.
Celtic huffed and puffed but failed to find a leveller after Killie opened the scoring with a few half-chances and half-shouts for penalties waved away.
Phrases with half
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with half
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- first half 75×
- second half 72×
- half of 69×
- and half 33×
- half the 18×
- half and 14×
- the half 13×
- half years 10×
- in half 9×
- half but 9×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word half. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.