Sentence examples for half steps from inspiring English sources

But progress comes in fits, starts and half steps.

Songs in Nias use diatonic (whole and half steps), chromatic (half steps), and gapped melodies largely less than an octave in range.

He then takes two and a half steps toward the ball.

"We've done a lot, God knows, in half steps," she said.

Ms. Cooley, 28, is not a woman of half steps: this week she begins belly-dancing lessons.

Such a scale lacks the distribution of whole and half steps that define the character of the major and minor scales of the common practice period.

Half steps!" A few hundred feet farther on, a policeman and an M.P. stood in the middle of the street and split the crowd down the middle.

She says that a "woman in size-7 shoes can cross my apartment in eight and half steps and walk the length of it in eighteen".

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.

He described progress for gays in sports over the past decade as "two steps forward, one and a half steps back".

Microtonal music, music using tones in intervals that differ from the standard semitones (half steps) of a tuning system or scale.