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half-full
adjective
- (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
Example Sentences
At an important Ebola meeting on Capital Hill last week, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill was shocked to find it half-full.
Of course he would go for my mother—warm, friendly, with her Natalie Wood looks and her glass-half-full optimism.
Now he says, “There are two glasses, one half full, one half empty, and they stand side by side.”
A half-full plastic water bottle balances on the ledge below a dirty mesh curtain tied in a knot.
But Romney strikes me as a glass-half-full kind of guy, so let us not wallow in the negatives.
On the wash-stand a spangled white tulle hat lay drowning in a basin half full of water.
On the table was a basin half full of water, and the water was stained with streaks of blood.
It was half full of whiskey, and Charity shook her head; but Harney took the cup and put his lips to it.
And he gathered the clippings carefully in a wooden bowl that was already half full of bits of gold.
The yacht nearly broached to, while the next oncoming wave broke fairly aboard, filling the cockpit half-full of water.
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