better halves
Example Sentences
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They dominated them in one of the better halves they’ve played this season.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2022
“Greenleaf’s” Keith David, R&B singer Ledisi, and their respective better halves are among the couples sharing their secrets for making relationships last in a new season of “Black Love.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2021
I often hear patients blame themselves, and I've even seen spouses blame their better halves right to their face.
From US News • Jun. 3, 2015
And it contained a message to all the better halves of these dual-minded characters: “You’ll always be a part of me.”
From Slate • May 28, 2013
We were all alike disturbed and miserable at the unaccountable absence of our better halves.
From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)
