How to Use halfway decent in a Sentence

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• Agness needed to leave that man and find someone halfway decent to bring up her kid with, IMO.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 July 2022
• Against a team with a halfway decent frontcourt and elite guards, Gonzaga could be in trouble.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
• There had to be specific entities set up just to provide halfway decent care for some of these kids.
  — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• Started in 2008, the event is a too-rare glimpse of what L.A. could look like without cars — or, at least, with some halfway decent cycling infrastructure.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• That might have been a halfway decent starting point for the new 10-episode season, but showrunner Kerry Ehrin punts, jumping ahead eight months to when the dust has mostly settled.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• There are halfway decent jokes that get run into the ground and subplots that spin their wheels for half the season; a tighter edit might have helped distill the series down to its best material.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
• There was nothing that suggested that, given the right circumstances and a halfway decent villain to go up against, Daniel Craig couldn’t make for a perfectly capable James Bond.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
• Rug and Carpet Cleaning Almost any halfway decent robot vacuum can clean hardwood and bare floors.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 8 Jan. 2023
• And, yes, quarantine room service will offer a halfway decent vegan spread.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2022
• In hard-to-fill roles, such as workers in restaurants, warehouses, fulfillment centers, hotels and other front-line jobs, managers were open to hiring anyone halfway decent.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
• The expectations on most of us in those years don’t go far beyond going to college or getting a job or being halfway decent citizens who don’t embarrass our families.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2023
• The maverick tech mogul has, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone with a halfway decent internet connection, become a stock character.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
• In Arnold, Schwarzenegger finally offers a halfway decent apology for his actions.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
• In Arnold, Schwarzenegger finally offers a halfway decent apology for his actions.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
• Saw perhaps fell into a Terminator Trap, whereby lousy sequels soured the audience for when an actually halfway decent installment arrived.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 23 May 2021

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024