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Example sentences for "half interest"

  • Guth offered me a--half interest in the Lulu when his store burned and--I turned it down.

  • I'll deed you a half interest in the Lulu.

  • Their capital was limited and Mr. Young gave Mr. Huff his note for seven thousand dollars for a half interest in the business.

  • He also owns a half interest in the Palace Hotel at Pullman, from which he receives a rental of two hundred and fifty dollars per month.

  • Prosperity attended his efforts and about 1902 he purchased a half interest in five hundred and eighty acres of land where he now resides.

  • The next year he returned to New Richmond, where he settled his family and bought a half interest in a saw and grist mill at Jeweltown.

  • He conveyed, as a donation to Washington county, a half interest in the block of land on which the court house stands.

  • What's mine's his, and I own a half interest in both claims.

  • Bud had retorted that Cash might as well remember that Bud had a half interest in the two claims, and that he would certainly stay with it.

  • Twenty-three hundred would be a good price for a half interest, as the claims stand, don't yuh think, Cash?

  • I might give you two thousand for a half interest.

  • I'll invest as much as anybody else, and you put in your patent for a half interest.

  • You ought to give me a half interest in your business.

  • Well, I'm entitled to a half interest and I'll see that I get it," shrilled the other furiously.

  • The disgruntled claimant to a half interest in the Baby Mine reached into the hole and seized a nugget worth fully a thousand dollars.

  • I insist that I am entitled to a half interest in this claim.

  • I will assign you a half interest in a certain water-right which I possess, as security for the advance.

  • Me an' my two partners of the Three Star Ranch own one-half interest, equal with Molly," said Sandy easily.

  • But it w'udn't be a half interest in the mine.

  • I've got a half interest in these claims and I've plenty of witnesses to prove it.

  • In 1889 a half interest in the paper was sold to I.

  • About 1875 he purchased a half interest in the hardware store of George Malven.

  • Kline and Edward Lee, a one-half interest in his U.

  • Determined to invent such a machine, he finally managed to produce sufficient results to interest George Fisher in buying a one-half interest in his proposed invention.

  • Fisher also agreed to supply $500 for material and tools in exchange for a half interest in a patent if one was obtained.

  • At Raleigh, North Carolina, Barnum had sold a half interest in his show to a man called Henry,--not his real name.

  • Barnum had shortly before, however, purchased one-half interest in it from a man who had claimed to be Adams's equal partner.

  • The Doctor was more pleased over this trade than I was, and so much so that I began to think he expected a half interest in it, and asked him if he did.

  • A few days prior to his visit, I had made a trade for a half interest in a livery and sale stable, owned and run by an old acquaintance named Kintz, who is mentioned in the seventh chapter of this book.

  • John had come on to Chicago and opened this stable, after several years' experience in a Michigan town in the same business, and I had made a deal with him for a half interest.

  • As these were the requirements needed in his business, he would give me a half interest in the same if I would join him.

  • We divides the spoils between us, an' my share is eleven thousand cash an' a half interest in th' trade.

  • His partner, who made the discovery, paid for it with his life, and there is a rumor that his wife, who should have a half interest, is penniless.

  • I do not want a half interest in the Aurora mine.

  • He let me put up the money, but it's got to be paid back out of Dave's half interest in the Aurora mine.

  • He never missed a performance, occupying a box with a lady who owned a half interest in the piece, a Miss Estelle Clayton.

  • So little did we think of the play that I offered Charles Bowser, my leading comedian, a half interest in it for five hundred dollars and a cancellation of the three hundred and fifty dollars I owed him for back salary.

  • When the curtain rang down on the finale of that play I would not have sold a half interest in it for fifty thousand dollars!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half interest" 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:
    free government; great price; half centuries; half cupful; half feet; half hidden; half inches; half lemon; half length; half long; half mile; half miles; half millions; half minutes; half natural; half parts; half past; half quarts; half rations; half score; half slave and half; half smiling; half step; half tablespoons; half the; insane asylum