Only half of Nature's need is met by the reproductive instinct.
She could not raise a glass to her lips if it were full of water, but could manage it if only half full.
Although we choose our emotions, we choose in many cases in response to a buried part of ourselves of which we are wholly unaware, or only half-aware.
Although the external diameter of the tube is only half an inch, 0.
In a young tree or 'young bush' the yield of sugar from the same quantity of sap is only half.
To know less than this is to be only half alive, and unable to fulfill properly the duties of citizenship.
This includes not only deliberate instruction, encouragement, and warning, but various symbolic rites and customs, whose value in impressing the plastic minds of the boys and girls of the tribe is only half realized.
This permits the suffering of the latter to go unknown or only half-realized by the former.
Oh," said Celia, only half appeased, "I quite agree with you.
It is only half-knowledge like half-training in a trade that is dangerous.
It is no use your talking about it as though I only half wanted it.
Her accurate ear would always appreciate the defiance of episcopal authority, as now existing in Barchester, which was concealed, or only half concealed, by all the archdeacon's words.
The stranger was very well known to be one Mr Crosbie, belonging to another public office; and there were circumstances in his life, only half known, which gave rise to these various rumours.
She ended by bestowing upon Samuel a smile that was almost gracious, and addressing to him some insignificant words, which he only half understood, but which seemed to him exquisite--delicious.
In the British Museum there are some arctic specimens, one and a half inch in length, only half an inch in diameter at the summit (fig.
On the other hand, I am far from asserting, that if only half-a-dozen specimens of some rare species of Cirripede be brought from some one quarter of the world, characters beautifully defined may not be readily discovered.
But he is so exceedingly accurate that if he only fancies he has said a word too precipitate or too general or only half true, he never ceases to qualify, to modify, and extenuate, till at last he appears to have said nothing at all.
But you gave me no real answer, only half an answer.
I find it essential to take her the answer in person; or the day is fine, and I walk to Walheim; and when I am there, it is only half a league farther to her.
In that spot I am only half a league from Charlotte; and there I enjoy myself, and taste all the pleasure which can fall to the lot of man.
Emily's face at this moment was that of one who is only half sensible to words spoken.
It is only half-past four; Emily will have your letter in an hour, and surely will reply at once.
Oh no; we all felt that we were going to be only half a mile apart, and were sure of meeting every day.
As for the second, he's only half-witted, and if he was better off he wouldn't know it.
How should you, you are of their kidney--you're only half a man.
Monty, I tell you, is only half alive, he hangs on, but it is a mere thread of life.
They have not fully mastered the principles on which they act; only half-know their own meaning; and the half they do know they would express and not express.
It is only half published as yet, but the first volume presents so large a portion of the angelic doctor's life before us that we can estimate its value as well as if we had the whole.
To touch as many topics as I designed, I was compelled to extend it to its present size, and I still feel that the work is only half done.
If one drone oronly half a dozen were reared, the chances of the queen meeting one in the air would be very much reduced.
But if such hive is only half full, or 2,000 inches, it is very common for them to swarm without adding any new comb; proving very conclusively that a hive that size, is sufficient for all their wants in the breeding season.
They are usually started thus far the first season, very frequently when the hive is only half or two-thirds full.
Well, they did not take much--only half a dozen articles of plate off the sideboard.
But her public triumph made her only half-glad, for she was watching at home the triumph of another girl over the youth she loved.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only half" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
