Sentence examples for he halfway from inspiring English sources

I also wanted to avoid the pronominal ugliness of beginning a book with "she" and switching to "he" halfway through, or worse, the dreaded "s/he".

Amazingly, he halfway succeeded.

Fowler added, "Barrymore said that he halfway believed that the tribal gods, in whose behalf the pole had been erected, 'might take a notion into their whimsical noggins to wreak vengeance on the thief.' " This seems to be as close as Barrymore ever got to a public confession that he had taken the pole.

He halfway ruined the single most ambitious of his books, "An American Procession," by putting too much faith in those lyric flights of his -- though Solotaroff has cleverly picked out some of the better passages (and there are many, filled with glorious insights).

He didn't quite get his chin all the way to Austin's shoulder; then he halfway pulled out of the move before falling to his knees and lying flat on his back.

Don't you have the nuclear codes?" Ansari seemed both astounded that Obama was so relaxed backstage, realizing that "This dude acts the exact same way I could act if I was president!" He said that he halfway expected Obama to take them all to the club and start spinning some tracks as DJ POTUS.

He was so confused and hurt because he thought he looked halfway decent and clean.

He turned when he was halfway down the ramp.

"He was halfway to heaven when he hit the floor, wasn't he, Dad?" she said.

He was halfway through the takes when he realized that he could experiment.

He was halfway through the wine when he realized that he was sweating through his clothes.