half-pint
Example Sentences
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The prices of two frozen pie crusts and a half-pint of whipping cream rose by 26% to $3.68 and $2.24, respectively.
From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2022
But her half-pint size makes Leia more vulnerable, which is likely a good thing for the character.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2022
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
I’ve gotten more proficient over the years, though, at transforming large quantities of summer produce to fill half-pint Ball jars and wide-mouth Mason quarts.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2019
He would hang his gun on the wall over the door, throw off his fur cap and coat and mittens, and call: “Where’s my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?”
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
