meet halfway

Example Sentences

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“It’s a tactic to meet halfway in a negotiation.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022

So we have to meet halfway in the middle.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2021

The commissioners have it within their power to meet halfway and get the job done.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2021

They decided they would meet halfway between them and have a picnic.

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2020

Denny Bolton’s eyes had returned from their deliberate excursion about the gymnasium just in time to meet halfway that utterly impersonal scrutiny.

From Once to Every Man by Fischer, Anton Otto