Definition of Halves
halves (noun) - plural of <internalxref urlencoded="half">half</internalxref>
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How can halves be used in a sentence?
"Shelling on the halves is our most popular program.
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null"The halves is the biggest area with Cooper not there," said Bellamy.
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nullThe disparity in halves hasn't escaped the coaching staff's attention.
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nullAt the fifth body lying there, in two neat halves, Gem said, "Wait a minute."
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nullPut egg and Canadian bacon between English muffin halves and serve with fruit.
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nullHmmm, if the veggie patty "halves" the guilt, how much is there in their normal burger?
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nullIf something happens so that their wealth halves, that's going to change their lifestyle.
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nullAnd having BPD, it's difficult for me at times to separate the two "halves" of online journaling.
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null"But you could see their goals came at the beginning of the halves, which is a big sign of youth."
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nullThe power for these two "halves" remains separate, independently adjustable in your motherboard's BIOS.
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nullJin-qua put his hand into his sleeve pocket and brought out eight coin halves and put them on the table.
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nullBecause my brain halves are at war with each other for dominance? on 30 Oct 2007 at 8: 33 am Therese Walsh
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nullIn fact, "Machete" was first glimpsed as a coming-attractions trailer between the two halves of Grindhouse.
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nullAs the sun rose higher, Duncan ripped his pajama trousers in halves and fashioned them into two rude turbans.
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nullEverything else: Split the season in two "halves": The 5-0 start, and the 1-5 stretch over the past six games.
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nullCaron wanted to design a town center that would bring together the black and white halves of a divided village.
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nullUnder the hood, a WList or RWList is divided into two parts or "halves": the mutable part and the immutable part.
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nullIf the cucumber is thick at one end, consider cutting just the end in halves or even quarters before slicing thin.
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nullWe need to get rid of peasants working on halves [sharecropping where the farmer gives half of his produce to the landowner].
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nullBut they have lost three experienced centre-halves from their squad, and done nothing to address their painful vulnerability in goal.
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nullLudwick's second halves are pretty impressive (career .281/40/151), so he could just be the protection that A-Gon needs in the lineup.
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nullThe borderline between these two halves is the fall equinox, when the day and night, the masculine and feminine, are equal and balanced.
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nullThe growing divide between the euro zone's Northern and Southern halves exposes what some economists see as the currency area's fatal flaw
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nullThe game of two halves which is the fourth leg of the Volvo round the world race turned into a survival game for the crew of Green Dragon today.
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nullThe fact that the game's action is almost entirely split into these two separate halves wouldn't be a problem if either were especially interesting.
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nullFor an added treat, while that is cooking get a package of crescent rolls, slice a package of hot dogs in halves and make yourself some Wiener wraps!
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nullHe roughly divided the gold in halves, caching one half on a prominent ledge, wrapped in a piece of blanket, and returning the other half to the sack.
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nullIt's more typical, especially when construction was booming, for occasional and isolated outages to affect individual subdivisions or "halves" of towns.
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null"halves" to this performance-often intercut within the narrative-and these can be neatly labeled as the pre-accident Sanjay and the post-accident Sanjay.
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nullA number of others also work for us on "halves" -- that is, we provide the land, furnish the seeds, tools, mules, feed the mules, and equally divide whatever is raised.
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nullShe lengthens her legs down the mattress, sets the four muffin halves side by side on the white cloth napkin that he's unfolded for her, lain over her thighs like a tablecloth.
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nullIn the last fifty years of worldwide economic changes and growth, there hasn't been a single country which had had rousing success without the help of both halves of the populous.
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nullEach of the Russian and English "halves" has two sections: the first comprises the alphabetically ordered listing of the "intensificands," each of which constitutes a dictionary entry.
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nullGnostic teachers, who in their flourishing time were as thick as thistle-downs in summer, conceived of man as consisting of two "halves" which corresponded with two totally different world-orders.
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nullThe second is the fact Jarrod Mullen and Kurt Gidley are cementing a key partnership in the halves, which is only three games old but has all the hallmarks of keeping the Knights "alive" for September.
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nullHerbie ate a double chicken vindaloo with dry vegetable curry, washed down with twelve halves of lager and they left him in St John's Wood crying curses on all who criticized the works of Gustav Mahler.
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nullUpon graduation, he managed to combine the two halves, joining a Chicago law firm, teaching at the University of Chicago, writing a book and working the streets to register Chicago voters all at the same time.
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nullEvery eight weeks and I just stick the tube in my horse's mouth and give it to her in "halves" part of the tube, wait for her to swallow and then give her the rest of the tube to make sure she gets the full dosage.
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nullI was interested and moved by Kerstin's doctor's account of her awakening and first words, and by another of her doctor's description of how time, for the two "halves" of the fritzl family seems to move at different speeds.
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nullThe Machete character first appeared in what most people assumed was a mock trailer for the film, which was shown between the two halves of Grindhouse, Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's 2007 hommage to exploitation movies of the 1970s.
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nullI unbolted and opened both halves of the vacant box next door and, grabbing the groggy Surtees by the back of his collar and by his belt, half ran him, half flung him into the space, closing both halves of the door and slapping home the bolts.
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nullNegotiations on the necessary capital of a Palestinian state, Jerusalem, as well as transport links between the two "halves" of that state, the West Bank and Gaza, will have to wait until the Fatah leadership takes back control of Gaza from Hamas on terms acceptable to Israel.
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Tips for Using halves in a Sentence
You may have an easier time writing sentences with halves if you know what words are likely to come before or after it, or simply what words are often found in the same sentence.
Frequent Predecessors
Words that often come before halves in sentences. For example: "two halves" or "the halves"
- two
- the
- both
- into
- by
- in
- lower
- equal
- left
- lateral
Frequent Successors
Words that often come after halves in sentences. For example: "halves of" or "halves ."
- of
- .
- and
- are
- in
- by
- the
- with
- or
- to
Associated Words
Words that aren't necessarily predecessors or successors, but are often found in the same sentence.
- glued
- pairing
- shootout
- quarters
- kicks
- half
- halftime
- jaw
- extra
- symmetry
Alternate Definitions
- halves (noun) - pl. of <xref urlencoded="half">half</xref>
- halves (noun) - by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily; partially; incompletely
- halves (noun) - see under <er>go</er>
