Example sentences for: half-

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

  • The strangest example of a loanword I have encountered in Thai is half-English, half-Italian musically derived: dedsmollay.

  • Half-Court Press

  • After college he was even engaged briefly to a half-Jewish woman.

  • Stone's thriller about the sojourns of a half-Jewish, half-Catholic journalist in Jerusalem's Old City is said to cut to the heart of zealotry.

  • I don't know whom I adored more: Billy Bob Thornton as a greasy hick with a whiff of Tales From the Crypt -style demonism; Nick Nolte, as a skeletal, gravel-voiced albino who could be John Huston after a decade of being eaten by worms; or Jon Voight, as a blind half-Indian whose portentous utterances are both full of crap and eerily abstruse.


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