Example sentences for: half-sister

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

  • And the idea of a half-brother or half-sister with brown skin was unthinkable."

  • Hemings, who was 29 years younger than Jefferson, was herself the mulatto half-sister of Jefferson's wife.

  • As the movie tells it, she was a sylvan, redheaded princess (Cate Blanchett) given to gamboling with her fella (Joseph Fiennes) between periods of internment in the Tower of London on charges of conspiring to overthrow her half-sister, the heatedly Catholic Queen Mary (Kathy Burke).

  • Police announced that they have ruled out JonBenet Ramsey's half-brother and half-sister as suspects in her murder, evidently because both were out of town when the crime was committed.


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