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
Survivors include his companion, Dawn Felice Jones; two children, Barbara Roney and trumpeter Wallace Vernell Roney; a sister, Crystal Roney; a brother, jazz saxophonist Antoine Roney; two half sisters; a half brother; and a grandmother.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2020
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
It didn’t seem right that Miss Trotter and Ma Charles didn’t visit or speak directly to each other when they were half sisters.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
