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Example sentences for "halve"

Lexicographically close words:
haltering; halters; halting; haltingly; halts; halved; halves; halving; halways; haly
  1. Peel firm bananas, halve them lengthwise, dust lightly with pepper and wrap each in a thin slice of streaky bacon.

  2. Halve them, sprinkle them with salt, turn them cut side down on a fine sieve, put a heavy plate on them and let them drain for an hour.

  3. He next tells him to double it; this done, the player is told to add eight to the result, and then halve it.

  4. After doing this he must halve the whole, and from what is left take away the number first thought of.

  5. Take nine pounds ripe peaches, rub them with a coarse towel, and halve them.

  6. Halve them, take out the yolks, which mix smoothly with some finely chopped or ground ham or fowl, salt and pepper, and a few spoonfuls melted butter or salad oil.

  7. For halve goddes, we now say demigods.

  8. For what man is so sad or of so parfit welefulnesse, that he ne stryveth and pleyneth on som halve ayen the qualitee of his 55 estat?

  9. Two men may join forces to entertain a quartet of ladies, or more, and thus halve the expense.

  10. We take a quantity, halve it, and again halve this half, and so on without end, but we shall never obtain the infinity of smallness; for the quantity indefinitely divided will always remain indefinitely divisible.

  11. Now tuck each strand again alternately over a strand and under a strand of the rope, and then taper off by halving the strands before tucking the third time, and again halve them before the fourth tuck.

  12. Tuck whole again, and this time each strand under one strand, then halve the strands and tuck again.

  13. Halve clear stone peaches but put in a few seeds for the flavor.

  14. Braced by the thought that he was annoying his opponent by these verbal outbursts, he managed to halve four holes in a row, but on the ninth green he missed another short putt.

  15. I was afraid the blighters might halve this one and need extra holes!

  16. Colonel Jimmy had a burglar's chance to halve the match by winning the last hole, and he fought for it like a cornered wolf.

  17. Waddles still had a difficult putt to halve the hole, but while he was studying the roll of the green the Major spoke up.

  18. An iron might give him a fighting chance to halve the hole; but my last lingering hope died when I saw that club in the boy's hand.

  19. I might make a notation against the tricky ninth, where he played a marvellous shot out of a sand trap to halve a hole which I would have given up as lost.

  20. I could tell by the way the Colonel messed the fourteenth hole that he wanted to halve that too.

  21. I will guarantee, I who have had only ten years of soldiering, that if Japan were where Holland is today, I would halve my strength in ships and I would halve my strength in men, and I would overrun your country with ease at any time I chose.

  22. Well, a jolly good match and we halve it.

  23. Cut off the stalks, and either halve or cut the lettuces into small pieces.

  24. Pare and halve the potatoes, and cut the onions into thick slices.

  25. Hence we see that it is never safe to have our unit less than the base-line of our plate, and it is better to have it even greater, as we will frequently be obliged to halve the distance to overcome contrasts.

  26. If the paper with a given exposure takes half the proper time to develop, halve the next exposure; if double the time, or more, double it.

  27. If we double the quantity of electricity on that given surface, then we double the density, and we say that the electric density is doubled, while if we halve the quantity of electricity, then we say the electric density is halved, and so on.

  28. If we halve the enclosed space, then we should double the number of impacts in a given time, so that the number of impacts is inversely as the volume of the gas.

  29. The yacht Halve Maan, 80 tons burden, in which Hudson entered the river which bears his name, was wrecked and destroyed on the island of Mauritius.

  30. The Halve Maan, in which the first white man sailed up the Hudson river, arrived at Amsterdam on her return, having been detained in England since Nov.

  31. Halve twelve large apricots, and scald them till they are soft.

  32. Pare thin and halve four pounds of apricots, put them in a dish, and strew among them three pounds of fine loaf-sugar powdered.

  33. Slice them thick, or halve and divide them into two lengths.

  34. And kepe wel that love, I thee rede, that of her thou hast borowed, and use it in her service thy dette to quyte; and than art thou able right sone to have grace; wherfore after mede in none halve mayst thou loke.

  35. From the point e we lay off on the arc a five degrees and establish the point p; we halve this space and draw the short radial line p' s' and p s.

  36. We halve five of the degree spaces, as shown at h.

  37. To locate the center from which the arc which defines the back of the teeth is swept, we halve the space between the teeth A^2 and a^4 and establish the point n, Fig.

  38. It is not wise to halve them, as their strength will be reduced below the safety point, and nails are likely to split them.

  39. Cut and halve the ends of plate the same length as sill, and nail to corner posts.

  40. We'll each pay a pound and halve wot's in it.

  41. Give him a crust, he said, and somebody to halve it with--a home-made crust baked by a wife.

  42. Do you think I would go through this labour if you were not to halve the success?

  43. Withdraw Mr. Egerton, and I 'll withdraw my second man before it comes to the poll; and so we shall halve the borough slick between us.

  44. As for Ricordo, while he greatly improved, he did not even halve a single hole with either of them.

  45. The best I can do is to halve the match with you, Mr. Ricordo.

  46. Pare with a silver knife, halve or quarter, remove the seeds and drop into a pan of cold water to prevent discoloration.

  47. Halve and remove the cores of a half dozen nice apples, leaving the skins on.


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