Sentence examples similar to a friendly half from inspiring English sources

"I just wanted to confirm," he said with a friendly half-smile, "that those rumors are absolutely true".

We talked about music and movies and politics, sort of general friendly half-sober banter.

A bluff, friendly man, half science nerd, half overgrown farm boy, Kappenman insists that solar EMP blasts the size of those that occurred in 1859 (before society was electrified) and 1921 before the power grid had developed to the point where it played any significant role) would today result in large-scale blackouts lasting for months or years.

In fact, Mark Zupan, president of Alfred University, just offered Christiansen a friendly wager: if half of traditional universities fail or merge by 2030, he'd give Christiansen's institute $1 million, but if not, Christiansen would pay $1 million to Alfred's endowment.

There's a friendly coexistence of half a dozen cultures.

This friendly, meanwhile, is highly significant: it's Steven Gerrard's 100th cap, for goodness sake, and only the 83rd to have been won in a friendly featuring two half-strength teams at best.

After taking the usual irritating age to prepare himself, painstakingly scratching out his leg-stump guard and fiddling with the straps on his pads, Trott flicked his first ball, a friendly leg-stump half-volley, crisply through mid-wicket for two.

There were 17 Premier league players under one roof and there was a feeling of passionless "milky" rivalry in a sluggish friendly first half.

Oluwasola Oloruntobi: Had a bleeding thigh in a friendly game in first half, went on to play 90 minutes, then absent from school for two days.

After the driver responds, it says in a friendly voice, "Pretty good, just half a tone too low".

He had a finger amputated after he was bitten by a puff adder, and a "friendly" marsh mongoose chewed off half his lip.