How to Use half hour in a Sentence

half hour

noun
Definition of half hournext
  • I waited a half hour in line.
  • Trains depart every half hour.
  • Mrs Chan spent four-and-a-half hours among the marchers on June 9th.
    — The Economist, 13 June 2019
  • The battery should last for about two and a half hours.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 5 May 2018
  • The entire eclipse spanned around three-and-a-half hours.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Pliny took naval quadriremes, the largest ships in his fleet, on the three-and-a-half hour trip across the bay.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2021
  • The movie is a long haul, running more than two and a half hours.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
  • The creation of that dinner fills the first half hour of the story.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • That means three and a half hours of extra time in my week.
    — Kathryn Crawford Saxer, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2018
  • The train returns to Ely about two and a half hours later.
    — Jay Jones, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • That’s a two and a half hour drive from home to practice and play softball.
    — Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • After a back-and-forth first half hour, the Timbers broke through.
    — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
  • If your load is around 10 watts, APC says the battery will last around three and a half hours.
    — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The plane left at 10:17 a.m., about three and a half hours later then scheduled.
    — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2019
  • In discrete-only mode, that dropped to just over four and a half hours.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 27 May 2018
  • Everyone had to leave me alone in my room for a half hour.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Maybe the first half hour was a little bit nerve-wracking.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Rick and Lisa Schardein made the two-and-a-half hour drive up from Louisville and booked a hotel room for the night.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2022
  • Rain will be heavy in some areas, falling at the rate of up to 1 inch per half hour, the NWS said.
    — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
  • With the turbo function on we felt the difference in the space in just a half hour.
    — Elizabeth Marino, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
  • What, in the three and a half hours of The Irishman, is truly surprising?
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Camille*, 30, used to get home from her one-and-a-half hour commute and pour herself a drink.
    — Alexandra Svokos, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Try to get up for a few minutes every half hour and stretch, stand, and walk around.
    — Anne Harding, Health, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Kelce's comment garnered over 1700 likes and dozens of replies in less than a half hour.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
  • Odense is on the island of Funen and an hour-and-a-half hour train ride west of Copenhagen.
    — Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The event lasts three and a half hours and is filled with workshops for all interests.
    — Daniela Cacho, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The longest leg, from San Francisco to Hawaii, took 18 and a half hours.
    — Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The third required a thin curling iron and three and a half hours to create the bouncy curls.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Ana Garcia, the host of the True Crime Daily podcast, hosts the show, which will produce 52 weeks of original half hours.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 10 July 2024
  • After about a half hour, Khan, his cousin and his friend were handcuffed and taken to the 75th Precinct, with Khan eventually charged and the other two let go.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 25 June 2024

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