It's not half what I ought to receive," he said, with surly grimace.
Not half what I ought to do," sputtered the inconsistent old man.
The Fire-Tender was saying that it is astonishing how much is telegraphed us from the East that is not half so interesting.
How inferior in quality it is to the melon, which grows upon a similar vine, is of a like watery consistency, but is not half so valuable!
The Eye of Lusitania is an Instrument of premeditated Murder; but the Design being visible, destroys the Execution of it; and with much more Beauty than that of Leonora, it is not half so mischievous.
Indian beef is not half bad in my humble opinion, and the Vino Tinto is straight from Lisbon, by Goa, the Portuguese port on this west coast, what better could a man desire?
Not enough, Mr. Carlyon; not half enough," she replied.
The cook's made dishes and artificial dainties werenot half so delicious, in the good child's opinion, as the simple fare to which Mother Ceres had accustomed her.
Not half so pretty," said Proserpina, snatching the gems from Pluto's hand, and flinging them to the other end of the hall.
But, in my view of the matter, the dragon is merely a pretty large serpent, who is not half so likely to snap me up at one mouthful as I am to cut off his ugly head, and strip the skin from his body.
He is not half so bright as we are, to be sure; and, for that reason, he needs us to look after his comfort and happiness.
I'm sure we're not half so bad as other businesses with their bawlings.
It seemed to him to be a very commonplace affair,--not half so awful as those festive occasions on which he had occasionally been called upon to propose a toast or to return thanks.
Books are nothing but a pack of lies, not half so good for killing time as a pack of cards.
He was generous as few in the matter of money, but then he had had so little--not half enough to learn to love it!
And thick as hail the well-aimed stones flew from practised hands; though of course in the frantic rushes of the dog to escape, not half of them took effect.
At last, he threw his book to the other end of the room, and went to bed, where he found it not half so difficult to go to sleep as it had been to study.
As one fancies some feudal baron of old (not half so terrible) everlastingly clad in mail, so all one's notions of this grand marauder of civilization were inseparably associated with varnished boots and a camellia in the button-hole.
It was "not half so much treason to the cause of the Allies as treason to the cause of Home Rule.
I am not half so sure of the satisfactoriness of life and the good qualities of the world as I used to be.
It's not halfso hard as I thought it would be, either.
I'm not half so calm as I look, Miss Pat," she said, seriously.
She's not half so lovely as you, for all her things are so fine.
It would be worse than it is, I fear, were it not for young Radford himself, who is not half so eager as his father, and does not wish to hurry matters on.
I'm not half so much afraid as you are: for I've not near so much to lose--only my life or liberty and three hundred pounds.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not half" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
