better halves

Example Sentences

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After attending the Paris Games, the Cornishmen are potentially eyeing a return flight to LAX in three years, pending the approval of their better halves, of course.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

They dominated them in one of the better halves they’ve played this season.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2022

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

Or at least think about it, dream about it, while their better halves are curled up in the bed, facing the wall, like in Hopper’s “Excursions into Philosophy.”

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2013

The English directors, whose wives bury themselves in such abysses, ought to feel more grateful to them than any other husbands towards their sacrificing better halves.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)