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 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
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
Each team lives and dies by its ability to stifle opponents, and the title may come down to a half-pint version of Lawler’s Law: First to 50 wins.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2019
The crew received a scant meal of hardtack, a strip of dried meat, and a half-pint of water.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
