half-cup
Americannoun
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I swirled a half-cup around the crust and dolloped it with fat shreds of fresh mozzarella and torn basil leaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Children were offered a half-cup of lemonade and a small ration of jelly beans on their trip to the imaginary sweet factory.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024
This is equivalent to two to three servings per day, where one serving equates to a cup of soy milk, three ounces of tofu or a half-cup of cooked soybeans.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2024
I dumped a little too much red sauce from an open jar on a half-cup of leftover macaroni; adding a defrosted sliced chicken sausage did not help.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
Measure the flour, and then take out a half-cup of it, and stir in the raisins and currants, to keep them from going to the bottom of the cake when it is baked.
From A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl by Caroline French Benton
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