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Example sentences for "halves"

Lexicographically close words:
halting; haltingly; halts; halve; halved; halving; halways; haly; halyard; halyards
  1. Owing to the slight union of the two halves of the lower jaw in front in many species the two lower incisors work together like the blades of a pair of scissors.

  2. Drain, cut in halves lengthwise, and put in a buttered pan.

  3. Chop the nuts, reserving twenty-three halves for decorating the top.

  4. I have often seen a guest serve as cement or hefting powder to two better halves in a state of fracture, because shame and necessity compelled them to speak and behave kindly to each other, at all events while the guest was there.

  5. But a poor man and his poor guest, with whom he halves his loaf and his can, are united by a mutual bond of gratitude.

  6. The incorporation of Hanover, Hesse, and Saxony is needful, firmly and indissolubly to connect the two halves of the monarchy, and to secure it against Austria in a military point of view.

  7. The emperor has already," he then said, "recognized the necessity of arrangements for uniting the two separate halves of the Prussian monarchy, and this necessity I feel convinced he would now be less inclined than ever to deny.

  8. He walked again towards the palace, and stood still before the large lake, compelled by art to flow out from between the two halves of the castle, and to fall down in waterfalls with many cascades.

  9. A memorable political struggle ensued between the northern and southern halves of the state, ending in 1848 with the adoption of a new constitution.

  10. The habit of doing things by halves has been often commented on (and, perhaps, even more by our own writers than by foreigners) as especially noticeable in America.

  11. To make the stuffed zucchini first cut them lengthwise in two halves and remove the interior pulp, leaving space enough for the filling.

  12. This will be the stuffing with which you will fill the cavities of the twelve halves of peach.

  13. Then cut these halves into section or slices so as to have eight or ten for each artichoke, according to size.

  14. To send two halves of a bank note each in a separate letter would, of course, cost twice that amount.

  15. If you will examine the rear axle shafts you will notice that the gears are keyed on, and held in position by a ring which is in two halves and fits in a groove in the rear axle shaft.

  16. Take out the bolts which hold the two halves of the rear axle housing together at the center and remove the housing.

  17. Then remove the rear axle housing cap; also the bolts which hold the two halves of the differential housing together.

  18. The differential gear is fastened to the inner end of the rear axle shaft by means of splines, and is held in position by a ring which is in two halves and fits in a groove in the rear axle shaft.

  19. Remove bolts which hold the two halves of differential housing together.

  20. The figure was like the opposite halves of two men bodily joined together in an amateur attempt at human grafting.

  21. And where are the other halves of the notes?

  22. That I do not, but they have only the halves of the notes.

  23. Juve's first precaution was to test the two halves of the window.

  24. Come, don't get angry, two halves will make a whole.

  25. The edges of the map are glued between and the two halves then nailed together.

  26. The third side is pinned down by first fixing a pin in the centre, then in the centre of the halves to right and left, then proceeding with the smaller divisions in the same fashion.

  27. Fortunately both halves of the Battalion had fairly comfortable quarters to which to return after work was over, though those in Ypres lived a somewhat noisy life.

  28. In her dance she incarnated passion whole by conveying the two halves that compose it.

  29. VII and VIII, from the Dresden Codex) become perfectly intelligible only when interpreted as representing the Centre, the Four Quarters, the Above and the Below, the latter figured by the dark and light halves of the dual sign.

  30. The head of the bird signified the chief and the two eyes and two halves of the beak conveyed the idea of duality, or two in one.

  31. Paul was not fond of boulders, but he took a wooden knife and cut one in two, then he snatched up both halves in his hands and threw them with all his strength at the dragon, so that two out of the six heads were smashed in.

  32. When the last foot had got inside, the two halves of the shell shut close.

  33. One of the annular constrictions is constantly in the sagittal plane (separating the right and left halves of the shell).

  34. Radial spines cylindrical, thin, pointed; the outer and inner halves of nearly equal size.

  35. Radial spines roundish, conical, pointed at both ends; outer and inner halves of nearly equal length.

  36. Often in one and the same species occur abnormalities in number and disposition of the radial spines, three or five spines instead of four, or also seven or nine spines instead of eight; often both halves of the disk become asymmetrical.

  37. Hence each of the symmetrical halves of the body contains more than one antimere.

  38. By differentiation in the two poles or halves of the body (distinction between the basal pole and the apical) the forms with different poles (Allopola) arise.

  39. The figured specimen is a young one, both halves of the biconvex disk being not yet united in the equatorial plane.

  40. A regular octahedron can be divided into two equal and similar halves by a plane passing through the corners a1a3a'1a'3 and the centre O (fig.

  41. Two halves are equal to the whole," states the college professor before his class.

  42. He may illustrate the idea by cutting an apple into halves and putting them together again.

  43. Among the Mammalia the Monotremata have a cerebellum which shows, in addition to the central lobe of the lower vertebrates, a flocculus on each side, and the two halves of the cerebellum are united by a ventral commissure, the pons varolii.

  44. Behind the body the two halves diverge much more from each other, and form the posterior pillars, in the triangular interval between which is a thin lamina of commissural fibres called the lyra (fig.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.