half-pint
Example Sentences
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This kit includes everything you need to make eight luxurious rolls: two pounds of Maine knuckle and claw meat, eight open-top buns, a half-pint of lemony mayo, and the butter to toast the rolls in.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
The tiny, half-pint cartons of milk served with millions of school lunches nationwide may soon be scarce in some cafeterias, with districts across the country scrambling to find alternatives.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
I killed the fruit flies for Kenneth Cooper, whose lab was up on the second floor, where he and his wife, Ruth, geneticists, raised them in half-pint glass milk bottles.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
The top seller in the bakery department had been a single cupcake, baked in a half-pint jar.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2014
“In fifty years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
