half-blooded

Definitions

Examples

• Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

• My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.

• As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.

• Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.

• Murders in the City of Angels have fallen by about half in the last 10 years: no small feat for such a big city.

• It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.

• A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

• Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

• All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.

• The Vine is a universal favorite, and rarely out of view; while it often seems to cover half the ground in sight.