Halved is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Halved meaning
simple past and past participle of halve
Using Halved
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of halve
- In the example corpus, halved often appears in combinations such as: halved the, be halved, than halved.
Context around Halved
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Halved
- In this selection, "halved" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, almost, jobs, production, compared, too and match stand out and add context to how "halved" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a perfectly halved banana two and and production halved she asserted. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "halved" sits close to words such as academies, ambushed and appease, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with halved
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cattle numbers should be halved too, he adds. (8 words)
Under the last Labour government, steel jobs halved and production halved," she asserted. (13 words)
And for vegan diets - it's halved again to 2.47 kg a day. (14 words)
Enmore travelled to The Mendip GC on Friday where Chris Willsteed and Simon Duncan started off the proceedings with a halved match but that was as good as it got as the home side won every other match to register a 5 ½ to ½ victory. (46 words)
After just 20 minutes of stopping smoking pulse rates will begin to return to normal and after eight hours oxygen levels begin to recover and the harmful carbon monoxide in the body has halved. (34 words)
In November 2022 Arts Council England told The English National Opera it would be having its funding halved in April and would lose it all if it did not move out of London. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Under the last Labour government, steel jobs halved and production halved," she asserted.
After just 20 minutes of stopping smoking pulse rates will begin to return to normal and after eight hours oxygen levels begin to recover and the harmful carbon monoxide in the body has halved.
A Lancashire Teaching Hospitals spokesperson said: “Instances of mixed-sex accommodation breaches have more than halved compared to pre-pandemic levels and we are committed to continuing to keep reducing these.
Analysis by KentOnline last month revealed how the number of homes in the county available for under £1,000 a month had almost halved in the space of a year.
And for vegan diets - it's halved again to 2.47 kg a day.
A new study has said that the number of nightclubs in the UK has almost halved in the past decade.
As a result, the value of the Pakistani currency has halved in a year, while inflation has soared to nearly 38 percent.
But for a show as creative and inventive as "Community" to have its episodes halved, that can cause some storytelling hurdles.
But I think if you look at our liabilities to banks, the proceeds from the raise more or less would have halved the numbers.
Cattle numbers should be halved too, he adds.
David Arnott halved the deficit on 21 minutes, but Neil Arnott made it 3-1 with a couple of first half minutes remaining.
Drivers who fail to pay face a £160 penalty each day, which is halved if paid within a fortnight.
Enmore travelled to The Mendip GC on Friday where Chris Willsteed and Simon Duncan started off the proceedings with a halved match but that was as good as it got as the home side won every other match to register a 5 ½ to ½ victory.
Figures from UK Parliament show the number of bank branches in the UK roughly halved from 1986 to 2014.
Gonzalo Peillat halved the German deficit midway through the second quarter, burying a drag flick low to the keeper’s left.
He said global emissions must be halved this decade, including through “far more ambitious action” in shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy, especially in the G20 group of industrialized nations.
In a pristine serving dish, you’ll find the Tropical Banana Split, featuring succulent pineapple chunks, a perfectly halved banana, two dollops of whipped cream, maraschino cherries, and toasted coconut flakes.
In Brussels, in the first six months of experimentation, collisions fell by 22% and road fatalities and noise pollution was halved.
In November 2022 Arts Council England told The English National Opera it would be having its funding halved in April and would lose it all if it did not move out of London.
In this day and age, price pressures have more than halved from the 40-year high it hit last year.
Common combinations with halved
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- halved the 33×
- be halved 19×
- than halved 18×
- halved in 16×
- has halved 15×
- halved to 14×
- almost halved 12×
- is halved 11×
- was halved 11×
- nearly halved 9×