Example sentences for: half

How can you use “half” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This time, half for show and half in real anger, I stood up, slammed my fist to the table, and shouted, God damn it, I'm not a Yankee!

  • Half of all pseudogenes belong to 10 (out of a total of 70) protein families, and just two types of motif make up over half of pseudogenic PROSITE fragments.

  • A cave near the town of Zhoukoudian held the skull of a small-brained but upright ancestor of mankind who lived half a million years ago.

  • He commented: “I learned that it (Wilson's professorial chair) was at Saskatoon, a place of which I had never heard, and that his university was that of Saskatchewan, which was connected in my imagination with ochred and feathered Indians rather than with a university apparently half a century ahead of Cambridge in science and of Oxford in common sense.”

  • Royalty was still big news in the first half of this century.


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