Halfway

Examples

• The doctor-seeking messenger meets the doctor halfway, coming under convoy of police. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If they had only shown signs of meeting my advances halfway how well it might have been done! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The man was down in the road halfway between the culvert and the truck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Yes, I have got it now, he answered with his thick red finger planted halfway down the column. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• And so the obscurity in the air and the obscurity in the land closed together in a black fraternization towards which each advanced halfway. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was still clear when he was halfway to the end of the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• No one said anything and no one touched him and, when he was halfway through the lines, he could go no farther and fell to his knees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Halfway down I slipped, but, by the blessing of God, I landed, torn and bleeding, upon the path. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was hot in the late May afternoon and halfway up this last steep grade the woman stopped. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Halfway down the hill the path ran near a knot of stunted hollies, which in the general darkness of the scene stood as the pupil in a black eye. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If the load is halfway from the fulcrum to the man's hands, the man will have to lift with a force equal to one half the load. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• One of these cumbersome flint-lock pieces might be loaded halfway to the muzzle and fired without bursting, and would roar in the discharge in a way highly pleasing to patriotic ears. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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