Sentence examples for a better half of from inspiring English sources

There wasn't a better half of me.

Couldn't have had much of a better half.

The setup: after a tacky kissing-on-the-beach intro, a sympathetic Ms. Doherty chats up the better half of a troubled couple.

Not just because her dancing eyebrows and twirling wrists in the role of a sex therapist in "Pink Knees on Pale Skin" — the better half of a pair of site-specific dramas "HotelMotel," staged around a bed inside the Gershwin Hotel — evoke a younger Norma Desmond.

And a tasty white bean cassoulet turned out to be the better half of a partnership with grilled pork loin, which had an odd, smooth texture.

As the University of Florida dominated college football for the better half of a decade under Coach Urban Meyer, the Gators accumulated numbers — of victories and accolades and championships — at dizzying rates.

Her first job, post-Perelman, was in "Ocean's Thirteen," and she had just returned from filming a pilot in Los Angeles for NBC, written and directed by Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City"), in which she plays the ex-wife, conscience and better half of a playboy hair-salon owner (Don Johnson).

For the better half of a month, war drums beat from the West.

It's Christmas, which means roast dinners, mince pies, large joints of ham, general nibbles and being debilitatingly full for the better half of a week.

We spent the better half of a month cold calling any person or place we thought might know who he was".

These are people who figured the risky journey through the better half of a continent, and the distant hope of life in the United States, was better than anything "change" in Cuba would do for them.