Example sentences for: one-half

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

  • Nevertheless, drinking and driving, moving violations, alcohol-related injuries, and alcohol-related problems were significantly reduced at the six-month follow up, with the intervention group experiencing one-third to one-half fewer events than the control group.

  • 5 percent sulfur coal, >95 percent SO2 removal) was able to significantly reduce space requirements while also decreasing cost by about one-half and creating no new waste streams.

  • The editorial goes on to note that between one-third and one-half of all divorced women spend some time on welfare: "As for the famous gender gap, it appears to be merely part of the basic political tensions that now exist between defenders of the country's post-War system of government guarantees and Republicans who argue for an updating of the ways we ensure personal and financial security."

  • The 37 percent just mentioned refers to over one-half million additional children who were harmed by physical abuse, sexual abuse, or physical neglect in 1993--over and above the number who were harmed by these forms of mistreatment in 1986.

  • One-half the total number of male or female (random cycling) rats was kept on the original Phyto-600 diet (long-term) and the other half was assigned to the Phyto-free diet (short-term).


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