Example sentences for: half-

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

  • 20), the Washington Post ran a comic strip based on the popular kids' TV show Rugrats , in which the main character, the half-Jewish toddler Tommy Pickles, is taken to synagogue.

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

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  • 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.

  • 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.


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