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Sentence Examples And when you're done, I'd say you're half-way to getting the winner of that Turkey-England cruncher. The two crews were neck and neck at the half-way stage before York started to pull ahead to give themselves a half-length lead with 500m to go. There can no longer be an acceptable half-way house between the Armalite and the ballot box. This half-way status of the liberty is perhaps best illustrated by its relations with the Lords Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. When a musician plays a string stopped exactly half-way along its length an octave is produced. I dug out the book, which has a bookmark about half-way through that marks the point where I finally threw it against the wall in frustration. About half-way back up the hill, pausing for a breather, I spied a couple of beautiful little cockerels, hiding in the hedge. I barely dared hope for half-way decent clothes boutiques, music stores and fast food joints. But Celtic went ahead in the 10th minute and it came after Stuart Duff had been dispossessed by Petrov close to the half-way line. The Woods live half-way down the street, the big yellow house on the left-hand side. The omission was not only noticed by quiet observers but triggered general audience murmur well before the show's half-way mark. It is half-way between a kind of intoned opera and the revenge, betrayal and interaction between men and gods of an Old Icelandic saga. And my morning cough is starting to be a little painful in the left-hand side of my back, about half-way down. His hand is shaking, his jacket stained, and half-way down a bottle of Frascati he starts to talk of elegant long meals. On one particular trip my dad's car got a flat tyre and only just made it to the half-way stop. We're half-way through the week and though I can't speak for everyone, to me it feels like a good time for some lulz to push the doldrums away. Then the captain aborted the take-off half-way down the runway because of a lack of power in one of the engines. I sat beside a little rectangular window with shades pulled half-way down, allowing minimal sunlight to come through. As the knell died away, a black flag slowly rose up the mast and stopped half-way. By staying in this half-way house, the guests all have a chance to rectify the errors that they've made in their own lives during the past year. Show More Sentences The ground was covered with melting snow, drifts and banks still sat on the sidewalk covering the sign posts more than half-way high. Dudgeon made himself look like a schoolboy as he woefully mistimed a header on the half-way line. With 420 feet on her odometer, the rover is about to mark another half-way point. I shall trot along to see them next week, weather permitting, which will coincidentally be half-way through the contract. It is a noise half-way between a lion's roar and the trumpet of an irritated elephant. There was a huge gash on the side of her ribcage that extended half-way across her chest. And in the matter of foreign policy the President has already met the Republicans more than half-way. About half-way back to Boston I slowed down even further to go round a blind bend in the road, to come upon a police car and a mobile speed camera. The experienced official calmly walked over to his far side linesman and consulted him before pointing to the half-way line and sending the Dundee fans into raptures. The request came at the half-way point in Manchester's pioneering campaign to rid itself of litter, graffiti and other environmental blights in just 100 days. The truck's underbody was snowplowing the whole time, and we made it about half-way before the snow accumulated into a solid wall through which we couldn't pass. We were not half-way across the open space when twenty or thirty furious figures appeared among the houses, firing frantically or waving their swords. O'Meara had another chance to stretch the lead two minutes before the break when Leinster won a penalty on the half-way line but his kick went wide. The necessity to mobilize an entire society on such a scale would prove sufficient to overwhelm the obstacles that deflected planning into the half-way house of the Broker State. Within an instant he had sent Yorke speeding away on the half-way line with one of his superb throw-outs. The Government is willing to meet half-way the domestic enterprises of electrometallurgy, but it should be a two way street. Did he leave the cremators instructions to give him 15 minutes in the oven and turn him over half-way through? Teofilo Gutierrez fed Quintero as the pair closed down some poor Ivory Coast defending on the half-way line. We were I calculated half-way between Crabwood Creek and Port Mourant. Examples from Classical Literature There he jimmied a window with his pocket knife and got it opened, only to have it fall on his neck when he was about half-way in. Before he was half-way from Burrowes' house to the mission station, he was overtaken by the Rev. Mr. deighton. It so happened that half-way down the cliff, which is twelve fathoms high, there was a boy named manaia. Everything went well until half-way to town, when Jimmy Brown sicked his dog on the goat, and then the trouble commenced. They were half-way down the heathery hill-side when a very ruffled and indignant Sadie overtook them. It is the half-way mark, the child of the reaper and the parent of the self-binder. At last came in sight the half-way house, where the horses were to have a rest and a sponge down. Then it became a coaling station, a supply store, a half-way town, and an ocean post-office. The next ball came straight for the middle stump, but was blocked back half-way between the creases, and another run was stolen. A half-way sentence was imposed, and he was banished to Dapidan, on the island of Mindanao. Rambler's nicker of welcome stopped him half-way and held him there, hot with guilt. In the Deccan, half-way between Bombay and Nagpur, there is a very remarkable salt lake. We had done over 380 miles and were getting on for half-way to South Georgia. Cut your kerf on the side toward the landing place, let the notch go half-way or a trifle more through the trunk. He was already half-way down the cliff, suspended on the llianas that had formed the swing bridge. And the first known bird only makes its appearance in the oolite, about half-way through that latest period. It must have been, I suppose, half-way between midnight and dawn when I arrived in Yarmouth. The more so, as the Pescadores islands, half-way between, are within sight of the mainland. That final rush met with so little opposition that Cole went stumbling and falling half-way to the end line! And at last it was settled, and here I am in the train, half-way to Windermere. Show More Sentences Billy Chope, half-way across the floor, recoiled from the corpse, and glared at it pallidly from the doorway. Any boy more 'gleg at the uptak' would have met his parents half-way, and eased their burden. About half-way to the summit, she climbed a rock as if she were a goat, and looked all round her. When they were half-way down the street, acton looked at Nasmyth with a dry smile. Situated half-way up the ALM, the cottage was luckily protected from the mighty winds. They appeared together in the church, a barnlike edifice, with great galleries half-way between the floor and the roof. By the time I had pulled half-way down one row I could feel the callithump working. And the first conflagrations from the Paris centre spread westward half-way to the sea. Nostrils elliptical, rather large, about half-way between the cere and ridge. The Eastern Star lay no great distance from us, with the quarantine flag flying from her main, and her Jack half-way up her peak. Da Souza cried, his beady eyes protuberant, and his glass arrested half-way to his mouth. Promptly, with a sound of rending wood, the top flew half-way up. He dined there and supped with her half-way between Roguervick and Reval. Mrs. armiger met him more than half-way on a torrent of self-accusal. This was spoken half-way down the High Street of fallow field. And when his appetite declined to carry him more than half-way through the third rasher, he understood. It was not until luncheon was more than half-way through that she realised the one-sidedness of their conversation. Tarry here a few minutes, it is but half-way up the Aventine. Nostrils oval, oblique, large, half-way between the ridge and the cere. Yes, my dear, hours ago, and half-way to Barnstaple before now. Show More Sentences The boy was half-way down the companion ladder when it came. But, half-way in, he stopped, confounded by an unforeseen difficulty. Anotolo may be said to be half-way between Zulla and Magdala. Mtzensk, nearer the centre, is half-way between Orl and tla. I nodded and slyly opened the door enough to pass half-way out. Charlie Cowan and Fred Marr had started, but half-way down their sled got stuck and I run down to shove them off again. If I was sure of you all, sons of double Dutchmen, I'd have Cap'n Smollett navigate us half-way back again before I struck. It ain't going to be any half-way beating, but a real, two-legged, two-fisted, he-man beating. She ran half-way down the stairs, and peeped round the banister. John, I knew, had a horror of any kind of publicity, and was an easygoing optimist, who preferred never to meet trouble half-way. So one day, when the Giant had gone into the forest, he tried to get into the parlour, and managed to get the door open half-way. It was the eiderdown comfort, half-way up the studio staircase! As Jesse and Elizabeth watched Monday, she nailed a question half-way through about the degrees of an isosceles triangle. Before they were half-way to the shingle Roland felt that he had won. And the Kiondiker threw down his pelts and nuggets as dross, and let his jaw fall half-way, and stared at her. It was Slick Kid that flew the traps, but Anville Dasher showed his usual middle pace and led from half-way into the straight. However, as it must be done, I went down, after two or three false starts half-way, and as many runs back on tiptoe to my own room, and presented myself in the parlour. Sticking his spurs into his horse he made a rush at the mountain, and got up half-way, then he calmly turned his horse's head and came down again without a slip or stumble. The shadow extended southeast of the coast out into the sea half-way to a large island, which he said was the seat of Hooja's traitorous government. On reflection, and on your sister's representation, I am willing to admit that, in making peace with young Drood, you have a right to be met half-way. Show More Sentences I turned half-way round and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. Jerry fixes him with his eye, and, half-way through, interrupts. We had strict injunctions, however, on no account to pass the falls of Reichenbach, which are about half-way up the hill, without making a small detour to see them. Find more words! 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