How to Use halfway house in a Sentence

halfway house

noun
  • The car is the perfect halfway house between a family caravan and luxury sedan.
  • The call that haunts Ron Honberg came from a halfway house.
    Suzanne Hirt, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
  • The Southeast halfway house has been around since 1978.
    USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Instead, Wright was sent to a halfway house that was not locked down.
    Kevin Grasha cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 31 May 2023
  • Cedric the Entertainer plays the wacky head of the halfway house where Tray stays.
    Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • As of now, Miller is scheduled to be released from the halfway house on May 25.
    Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • One day a man who was lost asked for help finding his way back to a halfway house.
    Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2021
  • Rutledge is headed to a halfway house, and has a job lined up.
    Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 31 Jan. 2023
  • He was released to a halfway house and enrolled in school.
    Kathy Cichon, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2021
  • After Lyne died, the house was used as a boarding house and halfway house.
    Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In his Santa Rosa halfway house, Hines dressed in all black.
    Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
  • He was released from jail early and moved to a halfway house in May 2022.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But for the past year, Collin has been required to spend his nights at the halfway house, and to follow a curfew.
    Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 19 July 2018
  • Then, in March 2017, a man named Hakim Kashif visited the halfway house.
    Casey Parks, USA Today, 8 July 2019
  • The location of the halfway house has not been released.
    CBS News, 20 June 2019
  • Their dad was raising two children, a boy and a girl, and their mother was with me at the halfway house.
    al, 26 Feb. 2021
  • He was paroled in August, and is now living in a halfway house in Lynchburg, Va.
    Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Her first stint was on the board of Conard House, a halfway house for young people with mental illness.
    Catherine Bigelow, SFChronicle.com, 24 July 2019
  • Karr called the head of the halfway house and asked her to let Wallace know his attentions were not welcome.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 9 May 2018
  • Patrick O’Malley was released from prison in September 2009 and sent to a halfway house for the last month of his sentence.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2022
  • He was moved to a halfway house in Brooklyn and is scheduled to be released in August.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 20 May 2022
  • Grant was released to a halfway house in June, 2007, after fourteen months in prison.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Johnson was required to spend a year in a halfway house and comply with parole for life.
    Fox News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The former 'Dance Moms' star is now on her way to a halfway house in California.
    Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
  • But Gilbert’s lawyer has filed a motion to release him to a halfway house in San Francisco.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The halfway house screens all incoming packages and found the powder.
    USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2019
  • She was then taken to the halfway house, but refused to leave without her daughter.
    New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Tray has been living in a halfway house run by a guy named Miniard Mullins (Cedric the Entertainer).
    David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
  • He was released from the halfway house on May 10, the federal officials said.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2024
  • Angeli was granted early release to a halfway house before he was eventually freed in May 2023.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2024

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