half-filled

adjective

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

Example Sentences

For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.

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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.

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Some of the French regiments are half filled with these Irish renegades.

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But after the shock, our brave little boat, though half filled, rose and shook herself like a spaniel.

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At three o'clock the balloon was over half filled and was swaying savagely at its anchorage.

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