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Example sentences from the Web for half-emptyThat makes everybody feel good and talk about how the system can work and so on, but I see the glass as half-empty. The Senate's Immigration Vote|Michael Tomasky|June 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST He also gave him stationary, shoelaces, a light for his bike, and a half-empty bottle of Grand Marnier. Whitey Bulger's Wily Girl|Christine Pelisek|June 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST When I arrived at the Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer, the pews were half-empty. Mary Magdalene and Me|Tracy Quan|November 10, 2009|DAILY BEAST In the course of his article, Dr. Barry lets slip a phrase about "half-empty churches." Books and Persons|Arnold Bennett
Marcos went in, his spurred heels clanking loudly in the half-empty house. The Velvet Glove|Henry Seton Merriman He scrambled up from his knees with a half-empty syphon of sodawater. The Return|Walter de la Mare Both Evan and Rhys looked up from their half-empty bowls across the table at Ales, as if struck by her pertinent shrewdness. The Making of William Edwards|Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks The sight of Nosey checking the times of arrival, and still more the gloomy aspect of a half-empty workroom, chilled her. Coquette|Frank Swinnerton
adjective(of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity Words nearby half-emptyhalf-drunk, half-duplex, half eagle, half-eaten, half-educated, half-empty, half-English, half-filled, half-finished, half-forgotten, half-formed Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |