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Example sentences for "half full"

  • Beat until thoroughly mixed and then fill into well-buttered glass custard cups and set the cups in a baking pan and fill the pan half full of warm water.

  • Now heat to the boiling point sufficient milk to fill each cup one-half full.

  • Beat thoroughly to mix and then fill into well-greased and floured muffin pans, filling the pans little more than half full.

  • Mix thoroughly and then grease and flour the custard cups and fill a little better than just one-half full.

  • Then pour in very cold ice-water till the glass is half full.

  • Take a sufficient quantity of green tarragon leaves, (picked from the stalks) and put them into a wide-mouthed glass jar till it is half full; pressing them down hard.

  • Put twelve pounds of potash into a barrel, and then pour in water till the barrel is half full.

  • Fill well-buttered muffin pans one-half full, and bake in a moderate oven for twenty-five minutes.

  • Put one ounce in a glass one-half full of water, and give two teaspoonfuls frequently, dependent upon how much stimulant the patient has ever used; or an enema of one ounce of hot coffee can be given.

  • Ten drops in a glass one-half full of water and give two teaspoonfuls everyone to three hours, in the first stage attended by fever, hot and dry skin.

  • If you give medicine you can put fifteen drops of the Tincture of Aconite in a glass one-half full of water and give two teaspoonfuls of this every fifteen minutes for four doses.

  • The boy refused to tell us how he came in an open boat, half full of water, and out of sight of land.

  • It is a flat-bottomed boat, half full of water, with a boy in it," answered Ryder.

  • Mr. Lowington several times returned to the main inquiry, but the young man would not even hint at the explanation of the manner in which he had come to be a waif on the North Sea, in an open boat, half full of water.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half full" 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:
    half asleep; half broad; half centuries; half company; half cupful; half dram; half feet; half from; half glass; half hour; half hours; half inches; half laughing; half length; half mile; half natural; half ounce; half pint; half quarts; half smile; half speed; half thick; left wing; thick cloth; whose life; you seem