in half

Example Sentences

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Neighboring towns looked down on its working-class residents and the beat-up motels along Beach Boulevard, which cleaves the city in half.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Paz has attempted in quell the protesters' fury by saying he will cut his own salary in half and give Indigenous groups and labor unions more of a say in policy-making.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

I ask him whether it's OK to crack spaghetti in half before cooking it.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

It had sliced Hasidic-majority Brooklyn Senate and Assembly districts in half to create districts that had significantly larger black and Puerto Rican populations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Jan Dorlich must have been thinking about riding in a mail cart when he said we could get there in half an hour.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron