half-English
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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They saw some clips of me online and realised I was half-English.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
Violette Szabo, a half-French, half-English widow and mother, joined Britain’s Special Operations Executive and was trained as a saboteur and spy before parachuting into France to fight with the resistance.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
It’s a half-English, half-Hindi outlier on a soundtrack otherwise populated by Bruce Springsteen songs — the closest Bruce analog would be a mix of “Drive All Night,” “Secret Garden” and something from Bollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
At 25, Sofia is a half-English, half-Greek anthropology student who works in a London cafe called the Coffee House but mostly tends to the petulant demands of her mother, Rose.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2016
Grandma must have told me about a million unsolicited half-English, half-Fante stories about everything from our family to mythology.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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