half-full

adjective

1. (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.

From The Daily Beast

Of course he would go for my mother—warm, friendly, with her Natalie Wood looks and her glass-half-full optimism.

From The Daily Beast

Now he says, “There are two glasses, one half full, one half empty, and they stand side by side.”

From The Daily Beast

A half-full plastic water bottle balances on the ledge below a dirty mesh curtain tied in a knot.

From The Daily Beast

But Romney strikes me as a glass-half-full kind of guy, so let us not wallow in the negatives.

From The Daily Beast

On the wash-stand a spangled white tulle hat lay drowning in a basin half full of water.

From Project Gutenberg

On the table was a basin half full of water, and the water was stained with streaks of blood.

From Project Gutenberg

It was half full of whiskey, and Charity shook her head; but Harney took the cup and put his lips to it.

From Project Gutenberg

And he gathered the clippings carefully in a wooden bowl that was already half full of bits of gold.

From Project Gutenberg

The yacht nearly broached to, while the next oncoming wave broke fairly aboard, filling the cockpit half-full of water.

From Project Gutenberg