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Example sentences for "full half"

  • It was a full half-hour before Hinchley or Margaret made their appearance.

  • It must have been a full half-hour before she in turn left the apartment.

  • It required a good share of patience, for Don Pablo after this remained a full half-hour upon the tree.

  • When first started, the buck was a full half-mile distant, but in less than a minute's time he came breasting forward until the boys could see his sparkling eyes and the play of his proud flanks.

  • A full half-hour was he, and much pain and patience did it cost him, before getting within shot.

  • Still all was silence, and for a full half hour we all stood there, waiting patiently for the closing scene.

  • The river was a full half-mile wide, but sometimes there were islands, and then the current became narrowed on each side, so that in passing, the balza almost touched the trees on one side or the other.

  • This is full half an inch thick, and so hard that it can scarcely be cut with a saw.

  • This work required a full half hour, and when it was completed, and Muro had satisfied himself that each one was supplied with sufficient ammunition, he was ready for the second stage of the game.

  • There was not the slightest movement on the part of an enemy for a full half hour.

  • The Captain gave the order and the great whistle began to make a horrible din, and kept it up for a full half mile.

  • For a full half century he was the voice of England, loved and honored as a man and a poet, not simply by a few discerning critics, but by a whole people that do not easily give their allegiance to any one man.

  • A full half of his plays are fictional, and in these he used the most popular romances of the day, seeming to depend most on the Italian story-tellers.

  • We remained at quarters a full half-hour, expecting each instant to see the long lines of soldiers emerge from amid the fringe of foliage which partially screened their encampment, and yet the advance was delayed.

  • Then it was that the feather-bedecked wolves began shooting at the helpless men until a full half of the crew were wounded, after which Thayendanega's beauties swam out to her, killing and scalping all on board.

  • Then boil it gently for a full half hour in plenty of water.

  • Boil it a full half hour in tea-cups; or you may fry it.

  • Put to it a full half pint of Madeira wine; take a good many mushrooms, stew them in their own liquor; add this sauce to your soup.

  • When first noticed, they were engaged in some sort of rude gambol, at which they continued for a full half-hour.

  • For a full half-hour was he absent; but long before his return the news he was to bring back had been told by signs that anticipated him.

  • It was a full half-hour after his departure before either of the sentinels thought of giving any attention to the state of their prisoner.

  • No knight errant of old could have excelled him in gallantry, for he had given her a full half of his claim; but her eyes filled with tears, for here, even as at Wunpost, he had betrayed his ineptitude with the pen.

  • First he went to Dusty Rhodes, who still claimed a full half, and browbeat him until he fell back to a third; and then, when Dusty priced his third at one million, he turned to the disillusioned Billy.

  • Perhaps she held it to his credit that he had given Billy a full half when he had discovered the Willie Meena Mine; but it might be, of course, that she was this way with everyone and simply tolerated him as she did Hungry Bill.

  • He stared at me, with that black scowl of his, for a full half minute.

  • She looked at me out of those intrepid and unequivocating eyes of hers, for a full half minute.

  • I had squatted there for a full half-hour, I think, before I became even vaguely conscious of the other presence so near me.

  • The philosopher Hans knew this very well, and told the others that it would take them a full half-hour to get to the top.

  • When they had ridden for a full half-hour, and the mountain still looked a mile off, Hans had five very crest-fallen boys moving along in his rear.

  • This time the man was gone a full half-minute.

  • Though he forced himself to walk, he reached the Leslie mansion a full half-hour before ten.

  • We had observed him a full half-mile out among the weeds, and on foot too.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "full half" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    full assembly; full cargo; full discussion; full dress; full flight; full flower; full great; full head; full length; full liberty; full pardon; full report; full salvation; full satisfaction; full song; full swing; full year; fully assured; fully aware; fully convinced; fully discussed; fully illustrated; himself hath; instant later; should resign; this one