half-turn

Definitions

Examples

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

• So far, all the players seemed to be willing to wait their turn.

• 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.

• Third parties in turn quibbled with his accounts, and he was irritated, but not overly so.

• An ace comedic turn that, in lesser hands, would come off as one-note.

• 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.