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Example sentences for "perhaps half"

  • It was evident that the animal had gone into the shoal water at exceptionally high tide and had stranded during the ebb; while the condition of the bones suggested an exposure to the weather of perhaps half a dozen years.

  • In an unfrequented street, perhaps half a mile away, the wagon stopped.

  • Perhaps half an hour later, Clutching Hand himself called me up on the telephone.

  • The sides of these holes converged inward into the box, in the manner of a four sided pyramid, ending at the apex in a little circle of black, perhaps half an inch across.

  • Perhaps half an hour later, I was still reading.

  • I believe a fellow could reach the fire if only he could get below there and bear the heat," said Joe, perhaps half an hour later.

  • Perhaps half an hour later Hank again came to a halt, pointing before him.

  • The sharp thaw had liquefied the surface for a depth of perhaps half an inch, and this was now frozen hard.

  • The pilgrim's track to the chapel, vanished in parts, becomes plain enough when it crosses the road which now runs from Guildford to Chilworth west of the chapel by perhaps half a mile.

  • Perhaps half a mile from the park, in the depth of a wood of box, are the two Sherborne Farm ponds, one of which has come by the name of the Silent Pool.

  • We now turn our feet homeward, and as our carriage passes, we take a distant look, perhaps half a mile away, of the old mansion and grounds once occupied by William Penn, or at least in which he is said to have resided.

  • Perhaps half of it is through tunnels, but much of it is open to the sky, and the cars are lighted artificially.

  • Perhaps half an hour later, outside, she heard a car drive up with a furious rattle of gears.

  • We now engaged a boat, and were rowed to Rob Roy's cave, which is perhaps half a mile distant up the lake.

  • But the nearer shore was skirted, at a distance of perhaps half a mile from the water, by a rampart of abrupt, bright, rust-red cliffs.

  • Perhaps half a mile up the shore a spit of land ran out against the current, and behind its shelter an eddy had collected a mass of uprooted trees and other flood refuse, all matted with green from the growth of wind-borne seeds.

  • He was not so tall as the Chief, by perhaps half a handbreadth, and for all his huge muscles of arm and breast he was altogether of a slimmer build; wherefore the Chief, while vastly respecting his counsels, was not suspicious of his rivalry.

  • Perhaps half an hour later Madeline heard the welcome pattering of hoofs on the trail.

  • This detour of perhaps half a mile brought Madeline to where she could see open ground, the ranch-house only a few miles off, and the cattle dotting the valley.

  • On the afternoon of the ninth of May, perhaps half an hour after Madeline had received a telephone message from Link Stevens announcing the arrival of her guests at El Cajon, Florence called her out upon the porch.

  • In perhaps half an hour more she reappeared, picking her way carefully down the deserted street towards them.

  • In perhaps half an hour at the rate we are growing this enclosure will resemble a well twice as deep, approximately, as it is broad.

  • It took several successive tastes of the different drugs before this result was accomplished, but in perhaps half an hour they were ready to leave the house.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perhaps half" 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:
    alcoholic drinks; alone with; came they; drain well; evil things; for not; found from; good fellow; lower house; perhaps also; perhaps because; perhaps even; perhaps from; perhaps half; perhaps more; perhaps not; perhaps only; perhaps rather; perhaps she; perhaps the; renew the; season them; strategic importance; went aloft; western hemlock; what land