half-filled

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adjective

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

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Words nearby half-filled

half eagle, half-eaten, half-educated, half-empty, half-English, half-filled, half-finished, half-forgotten, half-formed, half-forward, half frame

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How to use half-filled in a sentence

Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
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My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
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There are parks filled with men pushing strollers and coffee shops where fathers meet their friends, babes in arms.
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Instead, spa hotels filled up with over 30,000 refugees from the war-troubled Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
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Mr. Bachner stayed because he realized the city is filled with artisans and the possibilities fascinated him.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett