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Example sentences for "short half"

  • It was a short half hour to Thorne, because he might see her no more.

  • It was a short half hour to young Wilfred in his own room, waiting impatiently for old Martha to bring him the altered uniform, over which Caroline was busily working in the large old-fashioned kitchen.

  • It was a short half hour to Captain Thorne--to continue to give him the name by which he was commonly known--out in the moonlight and the rose garden with Edith Varney.

  • Hussars was open in his admiration of the horsemanship of the newcomer as, a short half-hour afterward, Douglass, mounted on a superb barb, swept out into the square.

  • She was still dressed in the inconspicuous dark robe in which she had watched the sadly aborted attempt at the jail a short half-hour before.

  • In the cold fury of his bitter self-revilement, he actually forgot the woman who had stirred his blood almost as strongly a short half-hour ago.

  • All incredible as it may seem he actually forgot for the moment that he had, unreproved, kissed her arms a short half-hour before.

  • A short half-hour took us to the plantation, where I found the Colonel on the piazza awaiting me.

  • The young sailor turned, and saw the Alacrity bearing down before the wind, with all her sails set, as she rounded a headland, but a short half-league to windward of the place where the boat lay.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "short 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:
    before noticed; empty space; eyes and; fragrant flowers; general store; great intelligence; made holy; short allowance; short circuit; short circuits; short distance above the; short duration; short length; short pause; short piece; short point; short reign; short sketch; short space; short speech; short sword; short time; short vowel; shorter period; shortly before; shortly before his death