half-hour
noun
adjective
Origin of half-hour
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Contemporary Examples of half-hour
As an election tactic, it was a Hail-Mary move: a half-hour address by an aging actor of no political standing or constituency.
The ferries run every half-hour to the Russian mainland, but they take only a few dozen cars on each trip.
He would spend at least a half-hour being decontaminated afterward.
A year earlier the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC had expanded to a half-hour.
McMinnville, Tennessee is less than a half-hour from “the farm” where the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival takes place.
Historical Examples of half-hour
She had slept, perhaps, a half-hour, when Fannie awakened her.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
After I've gone, I want you to stay up for a half-hour anyhow, with the lights burning.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
It seemed that a half-hour's easy walk should take them to the foothills.
The Leopard WomanStewart Edward White
You see me in the plight in which I came out of the packet within this half-hour.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
The church clock struck the half-hour as he turned into the wood.
The Incomplete AmoristE. Nesbit