half-pint
Example Sentences
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“Would you be horrified if I ordered a half pint of Guinness with blackcurrant?”
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2018
All I got was queueing from one mediocre room to the next, with one big queue to wait for a half pint at the end.
From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2017
The busy, perpetually thronged space beneath it could not be shut off�and a mere half pint of paint dropped no feet might permanently discolor a man buying a railroad ticket or kissing his wife goodbye.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it was all over, burly Will Lawther, National Union of Mineworkers' anti-Communist president and newly elected head of the T.U.C., sprawled triumphantly over a half pint of beer.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I wonder who decided that a half pint of milk was enough.”
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
