The term "half sentence" is not correct or commonly used in written English. Instead, the phrase "half-formed sentence" or "incomplete sentence" would be more appropriate. These phrases are often used to describe a sentence that is missing a subject, verb, or other essential element. Example: She tried to speak, but only managed to utter a half-formed sentence before trailing off.
Each line seems to be a half sentence or a fragment of a thought.
With every sentence I uttered, there was another, unspoken half sentence: "And the wall . .
The argument used by Oliver, himself a former BBC news executive, is that while robust questioning of politicians is entirely legitimate, it was unfair of Davis to ask questions and then immediately withdraw them just because the presenter did not like the first half sentence of the answer offered.
Samuel Pepys, a high-ranking Admiralty officer whose diary offers a rare record of seventeenth-century drinking culture, reviewed an Haut-Brion in a meagre half sentence that would dismay the Wine Spectator crowd: "A good and most particular taste that I never met with".
"The fact that Erik makes such a massive deal out of a half sentence tweet like this means he has no real understanding of EA or the gaming industry's internal command chain," Andersen writes.
The last half sentence only deepens the confusion.
They speak in half sentences and stunted sounds.
Last week I said four and a half sentences and it made 60 pages".
Do these policy soulmates from the same rarefied background, so close that they can communicate with half sentences and glances, reinforce each other's caution and pragmatism?
King Solomon cuts it in half, sentences Lenny and Carl to death, and then eats the pie.
Burger's Daughter took Gordimer four years to write, starting from a handful of what she called "very scrappy notes", "half sentences" and "little snatches of dialogue".
