half-filled

adjective

(of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity

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How to use half-filled in a sentence

For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida Pfeiffer
Taking a long-handled dipper, Arthur half-filled it with the bait and threw it as far as he could out toward the school of fish.
The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley Smith
Some of the French regiments are half filled with these Irish renegades.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 | Lt-Col. Pinkney
But after the shock, our brave little boat, though half filled, rose and shook herself like a spaniel.
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War | Various
At three o'clock the balloon was over half filled and was swaying savagely at its anchorage.
In Africa | John T. McCutcheon

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