Example Sentences

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At 25, Sofia is a half-English, half-Greek anthropology student who works in a London cafe called the Coffee House but mostly tends to the petulant demands of her mother, Rose.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2016

Basilides appears, like Philo Judaeus, who lived about the same period, to have been half-Greek, half- Jew, and to have belonged to the celebrated Platonic school of Alexandria.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius

He had become especially enamoured of Giotto, the half-Catholic, the half-Greek Giotto.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

Just behind them sat their guide, a thin and eager Levantine, half-Greek and half-Armenian, who, for some inscrutable reason, declared that his name was John.

From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Now in mineralogy there are many half-Greek and half-Latin terms, very hard to articulate, and which would be most trying to a poet's measures.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules