Sentence examples for beat a half from inspiring English sources

Pay attention to which line of the staff denotes which letter note, and the fact that a quarter note gets one beat, a half note gets two, dotted half gets three, and whole note gets four (and an eighth note gets half a beat).

"I was probably beat a half-stride before the line and a half-stride after.

Mark Philippoussis piled on the misery for Britain when he beat a half-English Alexander Popp to reach his first Wimbledon semi-final.

The only thing that made this win by AOP more tainted is how hard these two giants (and one manager) had to work to beat a man half their size.

But a buyer of the building would get a display box of the state's minerals, including the big chunk of chrysocolla, and that might beat an extra half-bath.

In that poem Sapphire's fierce language created a disturbing portrait of a troubled adolescent, so damaged and unhinged that he is capable of going out and beating a stranger half to death.

In Lost Highway, Loggia demonstrates the apotheosis of road rage when he pulls over and beats a man half to death while delivering a monologue of bile for tailgating him.

His fists were once described as "huge lethal pistons that could beat a man senseless in half a heartbeat," and to "broderick" became Broadway slang for being knocked out by a single punch.

One great feature beats a dozen half-assed ones any day of the week.

Our calculation was that a less expensive five hours of riding comfortably while enjoying the countryside beat an hour and a half of flying over it--with all the logistical trouble that would've entailed.

She has not abandoned open competition, either, and beat a field of competitors -- most half her age -- in the shot-put at the Millrose Games last winter.