How to Use half hour in a Sentence

half hour

noun

• Mrs Chan spent four-and-a-half hours among the marchers on June 9th.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2019
• 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
• The vote came after a meeting in closed session for about a half hour.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Robert arranged it with five rows of six stars and four rows of five stars, spending 12 and a half hours sewing the flag.
  — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2018
• The five-and-a-half hour operation was not worth the time – or the price tag, Osbourne, 69, went on to say.
  — Julia Moore, PEOPLE.com, 25 Apr. 2022
• When the other teen denied it, Pike allegedly kneed her in the face, kicking off a half hour of taunting, beating and slashing.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 24 May 2024
• Following a two and half hour delay, and a pending coming thunderstorm, the two teams mutually agreed to suspend the game.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 May 2024

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024