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Example sentences for "half high"

  • The tabernacle is seven feet and a half high, and composed of exquisitely wrought gold, set with a profusion of diamonds and emeralds.

  • The doors, which open to the east or south, are only a foot and a half high, and two feet wide.

  • The plant is only a foot and a half high, and it creeps on the ground.

  • This should be 3 braccia and a half high and 3 braccia wide; 7 braccia distant from you and 1 braccio from the model.

  • To support this entablature there were ten large columns of the same height as the pillars, three braccia thick above their bases which were one braccia and a half high.

  • A straggling desert plant, from a few inches to a foot and a half high, with smooth branching stems and smooth, very pale bluish-green leaves, rather thick in texture.

  • Dupaix says the wall is built of stones without mortar, is five feet and a half high, and two feet and nine inches thick.

  • They are about a foot and a half high, hollow, and present some indications, in the form of a socket at the back of the head, of having been intended to hold torches.

  • They do the same again, when it is about a foot and a half high.

  • They reckon it has acquired a proper maturity, when it is about three feet and a half high: this you may likewise know, if the leaf cracks as you squeeze the plant in your hand.

  • When the ocelot has arrived at its full growth, he is, according to Bolivar, two feet and a half high, and about four feet long.

  • He is about three feel and a half high, and there seems to be some of them still larger.

  • V-26] The large subjects are about fifteen inches and a half high, by eleven inches and an eighth wide.

  • The original cut is fifteen inches and seven-eighths wide by ten inches and a half high.

  • The entrance is seven feet and a half high, and about three feet wide; a gorgon head forms the key-stone of the arch.

  • At either end of this vestibule is a door, twenty-six inches wide in the clear, four feet two inches deep in the passage or width of the wall, and barely five feet and a half high, which communicates with the surrounding terrace.

  • Christopher twelve braccia and a half high, which is something rare, because up to then, excepting the S.

  • Giovanni in Florence; which was a work much praised in those times, and above all because he accompanied it with two angels, one on either side, each two braccia and a half high.

  • Dominic standing two braccia and a half high, with six scenes of his life on either side of him, animated and vivacious and well coloured.

  • This is a sub-variety of the Purple Borecole, growing about a foot and a half high.

  • When fully developed, the plant is two feet and a half high; separating into numerous branches, which terminate in large purple flowers.

  • I think we must be nearly four feet and a half high.

  • When I'm four feet and a half high, I'm going to jump over the canal on a jumping pole," said Kit.

  • But Grandfather shook his head and said: "You can't tell what a girl may be by the time she's four feet and a half high and is called Katrina.

  • And Kit said, "When we are four feet and a half high, we are going to be called Christopher and Katrina.

  • The plants we saw were about a foot and a half high, the stalks shrubby, and but little branched; the foliage and flowers as represented on the plate.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half high" 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:
    grassy plain; half acre; half afraid; half after; half amused; half circle; half dram; half hour; half inch; half lemon; half long; half miles; half ounces; half pint; half quarts; half share; half teaspoon; half teaspoonful; half thick; half times; half tons; half whisper; particular sort; royal assent; take measures for the; too much