Sentence examples for familiar half from inspiring English sources

For us, this mock-American landscape is a fascinating bad dream, half familiar, half strange.

Its season opener and first musical, "Dance With Me," is a revue that means to create a theatrical context for songs by John and Johanna Hall and Jonell Mosser, from the familiar ("Half Moon," a hit for Janis Joplin) to the lesser-known.

In brief, the data came from a single, 11-min session, in which participants saw intact faces (half familiar, half unfamiliar) or phase-scrambled versions (approximately matched for spatial power density).

They put their arms round each other between shots, chatting in familiar half-sentences.

Kutcher does a couple of things well, aping Jobs's guarded, tight-lipped smile and familiar, half-hunching, half-bouncing gait, even if at times they seem more like ill-fitting mannerisms than expressions of Jobs's driven personality.

Their experience is a familiar one: Half of Hispanics in this country are first-generation immigrants.

The embarrassment and surprise when it happens, that one explicit moment in reaching puberty, is a subject familiar to half the global population.

Nor will you need an explanation for Chengdu spicy dumplings ($3.25), familiar, flattened half moons of pork and ginger in hot red oil.

His voice was faint but still came in the machine-gun bursts familiar from half a century of The Sky at Night.

The goal, of course, is to maintain (but not too conspicuously) maximum distance and to counteract unwanted intimacies — a code familiar (to half the population) from the urinal bank and (to them and all the rest) from the subway.

The goal, of course, is to maintain (but not too conspicuously) maximum distance and to counteract unwanted intimacies a code familiar (to half the population) from the urinal bank and (to them and all the rest) from the subway.