Sentence examples for rather half from inspiring English sources

Rather half smiled.

Or rather, half the nation rakes leaves; the other half blows.

Only once has she missed a performance (or rather, half a performance), when she became ill from food poisoning.

Lasting twenty-four mitutes, it was a non-stop tour of the piano keys — or, rather, half of them — that kept the pianist going at maximum concentration.

They were not quite the religious acolytes of St. John the Divine; rather, half a dozen men and women were pushing and pulling shopping carts loaded with 50-gallon plastic bags of recyclable cans and bottles.

"As global finance ministers it is easy to be caught in the slipstream of negativity, to be caught in the slipstream of looking at a glass as being half full, or rather half empty.

The pregnant woman is named – or rather, half-named.

The Indian government said (rather half-heartedly) that it would appeal against this ruling.

A no ball by some five inches too: "nice Saj" says Paul Nixon, rather half-heartedly.

"Nothing I've ever done has been half-hearted," Corbyn said, rather half-heartedly.

Worse, Beaverbrook even ordered Bob to conduct a "reign of terror" at one point, which Bob obeyed rather half-heartedly.