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Example sentences for "half the"

  • Half the 15th of this month, half the 15th of next.

  • Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

  • He opened the window; a bright yellow streak crossed the sky, and seemed to divide in half the poplars, which stood out in black relief on the horizon.

  • Believe me, it is one that you should never pay, since the rule of the world can be too dearly bought by the slaughter of half the world.

  • Half the women of his time, to speak liberally, had flung themselves at his head, and out of this pernicious fashion many complications, some of them grave, had not failed to arise.

  • I don't know why it happened that on this occasion I was more than ever struck with that queer air of sociability, of cousinship and family life, which makes up half the expression of Venice.

  • Your uncle Worcester's horse came but to-day; And now their pride and mettle is asleep, Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, That not a horse is half the half of himself.

  • Were half to half the world by th' ears, and he Upon my party, I'd revolt, to make Only my wars with him.

  • The distance from the middle of the nose to the bottom of the chin g h, is half the length of the face.

  • The distance from the top of the throat to the pit of the throat below q r is half the length of the face and the eighteenth part of a man's height.

  • And each side by itself is half the head.

  • Half the pleasure in going out to murder another man with a gun would be wanting if one did not wear feathers and gold-lace and stripes on his pantaloons.

  • Three-quarters of the books taken from the circulating library are stories; they make up half the library of the Sunday-schools.

  • One battle decided the fate of half the world--it might be lost or won for a woman's eyes; the flight of a chieftain might settle the fate of a province; a campaign might determine the allegiance of half Asia.

  • Before we reached Wolfville we came in sight of this basin and some of the estuaries and streams that run into it; that is, when the tide goes out; but they are only muddy ditches half the time.

  • Fra Colonna was charmed with his new artist, and having the run of half the palaces in Rome, sounded his praises so, that he was soon called upon to resign him.

  • He was owner of half the world; Master of the Earth.

  • You are Owner perhaps of half the property in the world.

  • Half the men in the world still lived out upon the free countryside.

  • He was in some way the owner of half the world, and great political parties were fighting to possess him.

  • You had only to take the money of a lot of fools that fancy they can't keep it themselves; invest it in Consols and Exchequer bills, live on half the profits, put by the rest, and roll in wealth.

  • They do it in half the novels, especially in those written by women; and why?

  • They're the ruination of half the girls on the--" He looked at Nedda and stopped short.

  • Did she realise that Val was at his best and quietest in her presence, and was that, perhaps, half the secret of his attraction for her?

  • Half the marriages of the upper classes were conducted on these lines: Do not offend the susceptibilities of Society; do not offend the susceptibilities of the Church.

  • He had not been there two days before he owned that the wish to see her had been more than half the reason.

  • We have recently lost a great public servant who was leading this effort to bring opportunity and hope to the people of half the world.

  • These names alone are testimony to the sweep of the great force which is changing the face of half the world.

  • A net of half the size of this would supply the whole village with fish for a week at one haul.

  • In short, half the nations in the north of Europe had their representatives in this assembly, though all had closely assimilated themselves to the Americans in dress and appearance, except the English man.

  • I'd put a hundred leap-years in every century, give woman the right to do half the courting--to find a man to her liking and capture him if she could.

  • It contains many learned and able men who devote their lives unselfishly to the amelioration of human misery; but I much doubt whether one-half the M.

  • And yet it is the sort of thing that has happened, once or twice at least, to half the men in London who have been in a position to make it possible.

  • In a year or so half the police of the metropolis were scarce sufficient to protect the House from one clamorous aspect of the new problem.

  • It is said that prairie dogs often take half the pasturage of western cattle ranges.

  • At this moment I am the proprietor of vested interests which are scattered over half the world.

  • Now, he proposed to reduce the instalments to one-half the number, but in no way to change the sum.

  • Half the evils of life, social, personal and political, are as much the effects of moral cowardice as of fraud.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half the" 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:
    broad smile; enamel colours; half after; half amused; half broad; half centuries; half century; half dozen; half dram; half fathoms; half from; half inclined; half millions; half natural; half ounces; half past; half pints; half pounds; half quarts; half smile; half step; half tablespoon; half tablespoons; half the; half tons; pine forest