Sentence examples for half step in from inspiring English sources

By mutating, or switching from one hexachord (say, beginning on C) to an overlapping one (say, beginning on F), the singer could always place the syllables mi-fa on any half step in the music.

While his 2012 mixtape, Royalty, was a half step in the right direction, Donald Glover's latest track forecasts the same determined but ill-fated Gambino that his fans enjoyed and his critics tore apart on Camp.

Flat a note in a similar way compared to sharping, but flatting is moving left (down) a half step in the flow of the music.

In France, both Nicolas Sarkozy's U.M.P. and Hollande's Socialists have taken timid half steps in this direction, but have been unwilling to go all in.

This happens to work out so that it's pitched on C. If we come up three half steps in the keyboard, we come up to E-flat so the relative major — the major key in this pair — is always three half steps — [plays piano] one, two, three threeee half steps up above its paired minor.

In it, Panetta, who also served as CIA chief under Obama, slams the president for "hesitation and half steps" in his approach to stemming Syrian violence.

After a driverless Uber killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., in March, both Pittsburgh and Uber "have taken at least a half step back" in their aggressive push to see the technology deployed, he added.

ISRAEL -- The region seemed to take a half step back in its otherwise inexorable march toward open war.

Once you get to the interview, you can show enthusiasm for the new industry and say you know you will need to take a half step back in order to gain sector expertise.

It's tough, because the half step was in the right direction, but it just didn't go far enough.

Half position begins a half step lower in tone than First position on all strings.