Example sentences for: half-

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

  • I have in mind Babel, Yevgeniya Ginsburg and her half-Jewish son Aksyonov, the poets Osip Mandelshtam and Joseph Brodsky, and in my opinion the best novelist of World War II, Vasily Grossman.

  • 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.

  • Felsenthal and Katharine both report that Phil assumed Agnes' role as bully and emotional abuser, but only the biographer writes that as Phil lost his mind, he taunted his half-Jewish wife with anti-Semitic slurs.

  • Two related ones are the Half-Sample Mode (HSM) and Half-Range Mode (HRM) [ 2 ] . The HSM uses shortest half samples, in an iterative fashion, to estimate the mode.

  • "Our fathers were Jews, we've become half-Jews, and our children are ...


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