How to Use half step in a Sentence

half step

noun

• Our makeshift group increased our pace a half step quicker.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
• Dr Hildebrandt’s work is thus a half step along what is likely to be a very long road indeed.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2018
• This means the new New York law might be only a half step toward righting one of the wrongs the Nazis committed 80 years ago.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 23 Aug. 2022
• Then, with about 130 meters to go, Britain’s Laura Muir also caught her on the outside, then pulled ahead by a half step.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 18 Aug. 2021
• At his worst, McSwain fouled too much, looked a half step off the pace of the game and couldn’t sustain production for long stretches.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2017
• Woods nearly collapsed into the sand, but quickly used a golf club and a half step with his left leg to remain upright.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 21 May 2022
• Bueckers lofts a pass over the top of the defense and drops it perfectly to her lead teammate, who had maybe a half step on the nearest defender.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 22 Nov. 2019
• Michelle Dockery stars as Letty, a career criminal who’s only ever a half step ahead of the law.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
• After crunching the data, the team found that on average the voice pitch of new mothers dropped by more than 5 percent, or the equivalent of a half step on the piano.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 1 June 2018
• The Count’s first Contessa, perdono concludes by relaxing a half step downward from the tonic, G, to F-sharp.
  — Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• The world’s second largest meat company is moving a half step away from its age-old products by introducing a new line of ground beef that’s 50% ground beef and 50% plant-based.
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 15 June 2019
• Texas has taken a half step, extending postpartum coverage for six months after birth instead of a year.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The hatch is sort of a half step between Honda’s subcompact HR-V crossover, which has more cargo capacity (about 24 to 56 cubic feet) and can hold slightly larger, wider and taller items.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• Your feet should be positioned approximately shoulder-width apart, with your non-firing foot a half step forward of your firing foot.
  — Chris Mudgett, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2020
• Jackpot Airlines is about a half step above a commuter airline, and its crew members are either shopworn or under-motivated.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
• The elimination of the half step that produces a lesser bucket of revenue represents a two-fold win for publishers and songwriters in that previously the 80 cents per subscriber bucket always won out as the lesser pool.
  — Ed Christman, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2018
• This Thursday San Francisco took a half step — a later curfew, indoor events, larger gatherings — as vaccinations continued apace and health officials monitored viral trends.
  — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024