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Example sentences for "good half"

  • The oration must have lasted a good half hour, the condemned men standing like statues all the while.

  • Tuys estimated that there must have been nearly thirty thousand Swazis there, a good half of whom were warriors.

  • Without hesitation the man did so, and it seemed to me he took a good half of the mixture.

  • Since I have caused the wort to be boiled a good half hour; since again I boil it a good hour, and it is much the better; because the former Ale tasted a little Raw.

  • Sossy and Minthy intrenched in a Sebastopol which must have cost a good half-hour's engineering, and the terrible Bytes Gridley besieging the fortress with hostile manifestations of the most singular character.

  • And so, whilst we do not go beyond general statements, it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.

  • Don't you know that it's a good half-hour too soon to ask for your letters?

  • Mrs. Milroy sent for her upstairs as soon as she entered the house, and kept her upstairs a good half-hour and more.

  • In this harangue he evinced a most astonishing tongue-grasp of Scripture, and for a good half-hour the air was thick with texts.

  • As it turned out, General Davidson's main camp was a good half-mile back from the river in one of the outfields of Appleby Hundred.

  • At last he, too, crouched flat, eying his foe with keen curiosity for a good half-minute.

  • This took a good half-hour of that enduring patience in which the wilderness kindred are so marvellously endowed.

  • It was toward evening, and for a good half-hour he had been quite out of sight, watching for a wary old woodchuck to venture from its hole.

  • The waterspout kept within sight for a good half-hour, although it did not come near them again.

  • But it was a good half-hour before Captain Ponsberry could sit up and do any rational thinking.

  • For a good half-hour he lay in his bunk in a corner, brooding over his ill-luck and wondering what he could do to revenge himself upon both the master of the schooner and Larry.

  • A good half of the corporation officials in the State, and some few outside of it.

  • At the click of the tonneau door-latch the big car rolled on down the grade, and for a good half of the straightaway fifteen miles to the city the younger man held his peace grimly.

  • The stillness of the beautiful summer night was undisturbed, and the roundsmen found a good half of the sentinels asleep at their posts.

  • That was a good half-hour ago, and she's been waiting in your setting-room ever sence.

  • The old gentleman was the biggest man twixt here an' Fredericksburg, but I d'clar Mr. Christopher is a good half-head taller!

  • This his mother did, and he sat there for a good half-hour alone, looking out at the moonlight.

  • I have always been extremely accurate in regard to time, yet a good half-hour was lost by me that morning for which I have never been able to account.

  • It was the only time in the day when he really left me, and, when he came back, he was not like himself for a good half hour or more.

  • Seemingly so, for, though he was gone a good half hour, he did not enter the room above.

  • And he did follow--made off as hard as his swift little feet could carry him, straight up the Yukon trail, and Farva lost a good half of that first morning bringing him home.

  • Potts said it took a good half-hour, after anyone had opened the door, to heat the place up again.

  • I made a good half-dozen mistakes when I got in behind the old writing machine again and went on with the letters; but never mind about that.

  • The freight is practically a total loss; a good half of it is in the river.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good 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:
    good bearer; good business; good distance; good evidence; good feller; good fishing; good government; good husband; good lack; good length; good long; good natured; good only; good repair; good republican; good rider; good scholar; good sermon; good service; good soul; good spirits; good sweet; good test; good unto; good youth; military force