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Example sentences for "halfway"

Lexicographically close words:
halfpence; halfpennies; halfpenny; halfpennyworth; halftone; hali; halibut; halie; haling; hall
  1. The femoral notch of the ilium is a shallow notch in the ventrolateral edge of the ilium approximately halfway between the last rib and the pectineal process.

  2. They were already more than halfway to Athena.

  3. They worked together and they were highly intelligent, probably about halfway between dog and man.

  4. They were a solid mass reaching halfway to the stockade before the last of them, the commanding officers, appeared.

  5. By mid-afternoon he reached a crevice that looked promising enough when he craned up it, but which nearly broke his neck when he had climbed halfway up.

  6. We must have been halfway back to the Aurora Bird when Bartlet, sitting thoughtful in the stern, made the sign that brought us up all sharp.

  7. He walked down a noticeable slope, and halfway he met a dead man, sliding on an upward current.

  8. At the halfway turn he lay down and, for a time, flatly refused to budge.

  9. She knitted a little bag, filled it with nutmeats and hung it from the middle sash outside the window, so that it dangled halfway down in the open space which gave the squirrels no footing but delighted our winged pensioners.

  10. Halfway through it her heavy lids drooped, her weary little head fell back against his shoulder.

  11. You see, Sheila Pat was in the garden next door; and halfway through Aunt Kezia's lecture her head came bobbing up!

  12. The candle on the floor shone halfway into the passage, lighting up a part of one wall of it, and showing plainly the rough gray stones of which it was built.

  13. It was now halfway down the gloamin' towards night, and they sat together in the drawing-room, the laird on the sofa, and Cosmo at one of the windows.

  14. When they left the cottage, the twilight was halfway towards the night, and a vague softness in the east prophesied the moon.

  15. We explained carefully to Dick that he had lit on the only spot in the Halfway Pool where the water was at once deep enough to break his fall and not too deep to stand in.

  16. By three o'clock I came again to the River, far up, halfway to the Big Falls.

  17. Ordinarily you can cross the riffles above the Halfway Pool only with caution and prayer and a stout staff craftily employed.

  18. Just below the Halfway Pool we began to do a little figuring ahead, which is a bad thing.

  19. However, we drew ashore to the little clearing of the Halfway Camp, made the year before, and wearily discharged our cargo.

  20. Below the Halfway Pool we looked for Dick.

  21. He saw the boiling eddies of the Halfway Pool, capable of sucking down a saw-log.

  22. The Halfway Pool meant much inevitable labour, with its two swift rapids and its swirling, eddies, as sedulously to be avoided as so many steel bear-traps.

  23. At the Halfway Pool we intended to unload for portage, and also to ferry over Dick and the setter in the lightened canoe.

  24. When I was about halfway across, a black bear arose to his hind legs not ten feet from me, and remarked Woof!

  25. After my bout with that erring one who came out of his own ward to sup grief at my hands, there began to collect about me a coterie of halfway bruisers.

  26. When our party's head is again on halfway straight, and he isn't such a dizzy Willie, I puts it to him that he'd better do a skulk.

  27. Royal blue velvet, it is, the skirt halfway to the ankles, and sleeves with long pointed ends, lined with gold taffeta, and finished off with gold tassels.

  28. If a pair of buttonhole scissors is not available, fold the material halfway between the pin pricks which marked its location, so that the pin passes through both ends of the located buttonhole.

  29. They were, in fact, striving to steer halfway between Napoleon and George III.

  30. Another slight rise crosses the vale halfway between this farm and Hougoumont, and facilitates the approach to that part of the ridge.

  31. Instead of an army, it was a terrified mob flying before Murat's sabres, that met them halfway between Auerstädt and Weimar.

  32. Six weeks later our admiral reported the activity of French intrigues in the Morea, which was doubtless intended to be their halfway house to Egypt--"when sooner or later, farewell India.

  33. It is divided about halfway across by an undulation that affords good cover to assailants about to attack La Haye Sainte.

  34. Clothing was worn; a single garment, hanging from a wide belt halfway down the legs seemed incongruous, fantastically aping humanity.

  35. It was now nearly trinight, halfway between midnight and dawn.

  36. As I have already said, there are but two alternatives, the way to Rome, and the way to Atheism: Anglicanism is the halfway house on the one side, and Liberalism is the halfway house on the other.

  37. I had cut my channel up the side of the nest nearly halfway when I came to a forked branch that I could neither break off nor push aside.

  38. He broke the news to Winny, sitting with her in their little halfway grove, the place consecrated to Ranny's confidences.

  39. On a former visit to the Halfway House I was mentally knocked off my feet by several glimpses of a woodpecker which was entirely new to me, and of whose existence I was not even aware until this gorgeous gentleman hove in sight.

  40. Leaving this enchanting spot, I trudged down the mountain valleys and ravines, holding silent converse everywhere with the birds, and at length reached a small park, green and bushy, a short distance above the Halfway House.

  41. A little over half a day was spent in walking down from Moraine Lake to the Halfway House.

  42. I now lingered in the beautiful pine grove surrounding the Halfway House, hoping to see him again, but he did not appear, and I reluctantly started down the cog-wheel track.

  43. A walk one afternoon up to the Halfway House and back--the Halfway House is only about one-third of the way to the top--convinced me that to climb the entire distance on foot would be a useless expenditure of time and effort.

  44. On our return to the plains from a two weeks' trip to Georgetown and Gray's Peak, we spent several days at Arvada, a village about halfway between Denver and Golden.

  45. There we stood at a sort of outdoor halfway house between the plains and the towering ridges, and I can only say that the view was superb.

  46. But when she had read halfway through a long letter from Baroness Tauersperg, in whose capable hands she had left the most important of her charities, she involuntarily stiffened and sat forward a little.

  47. Then, swinging his massive form halfway through the narrow bureau door, he called down the passage, "Euphémie!

  48. As Aristide was at St. Étienne it was arranged that they should meet at a halfway stage on the latter's journey from Perpignan to Marseilles.

  49. The fortress lies halfway between Rovno and Kovel, on the important railway line that runs from Brest-Litovsk to the region southwest of Kiev.

  50. Still another Russian attack was developed by a third army, advancing about halfway between the other two army groups and striking at Mesopotamia from Persia slightly north of the most easterly point of the Turkish frontier.

  51. Before we were halfway to the positions a cavalry general splashed with mud met the commander and informed him that six guns were already in our hands.

  52. He penetrated the czar's lines at two points near Jacobstadt, halfway between Riga and Dvinsk, and at Kochany between Lake Narotch and Dvinsk.

  53. South of Kovel the Austrians, reenforced by German troops, offered the most determined resistance near the village of Zaturzi halfway between Lutsk and Vladimir-Volynski.

  54. Then I saw Elgar's head halfway across the river, and knew he could not see the Danes over the high bank.

  55. And that road was barred halfway up the hillside by a close-ranked company, on which the sun shone brightly, showing scarlet cloaks and gilded helms not only on the roadway, but flanking the hills on either side.

  56. We must be halfway there, don't you think?

  57. Halfway to the Seawall pier the boys met the Seagull, with a party aboard.

  58. Hitching along laboriously, Frank encountered an obstruction when he was halfway to the end of his journey.

  59. As nearly as he could guess the time it was about halfway between midnight and morning, and in order to preserve his strength he forced himself to eat a little more.

  60. He was halfway toward the coveted shelter when Urrea caught sight of him, gave a shout, and fired his pistol.

  61. The next night, about halfway between midnight and morning, in the darkest hour, a man scaled the wall and dropped inside the plaza.

  62. Starting from the volcano of Krakatoa, as a centre, these waves moved outwards in all directions, becoming gradually larger and larger until they reached a point halfway round the globe, or 180 deg.

  63. The waves did not stop at this point, but again advanced moving toward Krakatoa, growing larger and larger until they again reached a point halfway around the globe, or 180 deg.

  64. Often he would chance to open a volume when halfway up the ladder.

  65. He was only halfway correct in that assertion, for Captain Avery and the Noank were not just then in shape to sail for England.

  66. Four stalwart British tars at once stepped forward, and not one of them "peached" to McGrew that their names were already on the rolls of the frigate, so that they were much more than halfway deserters.

  67. He might well be nervous about it, but his guesses and fears were only about halfway correct.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halfway" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.