Sentence examples for party half from inspiring English sources

BAR No wonder this city likes to party: half the households in Cologne are single.

And the song's intent was complicated: half party, half protest, invoking the joy of a voluntary wedding while inveighing against forced ones.

Abrahamian focusses on a temporary seastead called Ephemerisle composed of lashed-together boats and detritus bobbing in a river delta near Sacramento, which is half Burning Man-style party, half social-political experiment.

Had Barzalona started the party half a second earlier, he would have been beaten, and the freeze-frame of the finish could have made a decent epitaph for his riding career.

Her first cabinet was selected according to gender as much as party: half its members were women, several were independents and only two had previous ministerial experience.She quickly ran into troubles, ranging from protests by schoolchildren to transport chaos in Santiago.

In response to rumors about his sexuality, he once responded angrily, "I am not a homosexual; I am a pederast!" It is said that on the occasion of his 83rd birthday party, half the people in the room weren't speaking to him.

We expected something a bit more quaint – a place where they would nod to the potential absurdity of "football meets table tennis" – but we found a setting that was half-pool party, half-coliseum arena.

On opening night, ran the joke at the after-party, half the BlackBerry users in the industry weren't.

I apologize for quitting drinking, only to become a sanctimonious shitsack about everyone else's partying, half out of a misguided sense of superiority but half because I was jealous.

Among 142 non-Annex I parties, half of them have completed the inventories at least once; while others are still in the process of doing so, of which some are still to initiate work.

William Couper Samuelson was at one of those half-party, half-networking events at Sundance in 2004, when his Los Angeles roommate dragged him over to meet Julia Boorstin.