half sister
noun
half sisters
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pluralof half sister.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"You get an email notification saying you've got relatives, essentially. It's literally like Tinder, it says you've matched - here are your half sisters."
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
It turned out the man she believed to be her father had died five years earlier, but she connected with two likely half sisters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
If their three older half sisters complained, Venus — reflexively, almost professionally, protective, like the Secret Service — told them Serena didn’t understand the rules.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019
By being liberated my half sisters and brothers and myself are able to educate the ignorant gays and straights that transvestism is a valid life style.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2019
I hadn’t gotten to know his half sisters, really, but they both hugged me anyway.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
