Sentence examples for half the evening from inspiring English sources

No need to spend half the evening furtively consulting my "World Food Guide" under the tablecloth.

But was it really necessary for Blavatnik to spend half the evening taking snaps with his own digital camera?

Speaking in the wondering and adorable tones of a loved and privileged girl -- "Did you know, you can tell how lucky you're going to be when you look at those little white spots on your nails?" -- Ms. Gien adopts the persona that will control more than half the evening.

Like the leading man of Jane Austen and Bridget Jones, Obama can, as Austen wrote, draw "the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien....he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased".

Extreme fatigue was also reported after healing sessions e.g., " the first time…I was like totally zombified…my husband took me home and I slept all afternoon and half the evening he kept saying to me are you sure you haven't been drugged?

Some like to indulge in lengthly fond farewells and nice-to-see-yous, but I often see little point in spending half the evening saying goodbye to friends you'll see again in a few days, and find myself switching into parody mode instead of fluffing my farewells and doing what seems like insincere politeness.

He goes out and walks in the shtetl half the night, thinking that it is a dying way of life.

The night before was a bit heavy, he says, and he slept in because his two-year-old son, Emilio, was awake half the night.

We have to agree, having now wasted half the morning, ahem, testing this app.

Make vague excuses about bad Mexican food as your reason for being in the bathroom for half the morning.

We're not talking about your aunt drinking a little too much egg nog once a year and giggling half the night.