Sentence examples for my better half from inspiring English sources

Romantic tales often suggest that another person can complete you, with common sayings such as "my better half", "I was half the person without you", and "our two hearts beat as one" being readily asserted with few people stopping to assess what that actually means.

"I don't joke when I say she is my better half.

My Better Half and Me by Joss Ackland is published by Ebury Press, priced £18.99.

However, I did once have a furious argument with my better half about the end of John Fowles's The Collector.

The problem, as my better half put it, is that The Little Stranger is just "too measured and controlled".

Living in Germany, I decided to try celebrating both Christmasses (my better half was visiting her family).

Helpful hint: Getting creative with an RSVP can help soften the my-better-half-isn't-attending blow.

She's my partner, my lover, my other, better half.

And that means that even if I'm at my desk at 4 15 in the morning, I find myself sharing my office with my beloved better half... and wondering if I can kill him without getting caught.

(a) "My much better half".

It includes his rise and fall on the British art scene and war with critics, when "my better, more beautiful half died under enemy fire", Kitaj writes.