Sentence examples for really a half from inspiring English sources

"It's really a half idea we never made work live," Greenwood tweeted.

A few years back, in the course of writing a memoir, I had discovered the dirt on several generations, learning which family members had been adopted (in secrecy) and which "cousin" was really a half sister and how much great uncle Harry drank the night he was run over by a train.

Was all this really a half century ago?

"But we're really a half-assed right-wing conspiracy.

As the luckless Vinnie, Mr. Van Swearingen, considerably shorter and portlier than Mr. Shannon, sports the saddest-looking combover I've ever seen — it's really a half-combover.

Offensively, Andrew McCutchen declined for the second straight year, but Starling Marte, Gregory Polanco, Jung Ho Kang provided enough offense, and really, a half-decent rotation would've been enough to get them to a fourth consecutive playoff appearance, considering the competition.

(Although, according to Forbes, it's a really a half-vast empire they estimate his net worth to be less than 50% of "The Donald's" Ten Billion Dollar boast).

Like a glass of juice is really only a half a cup, that's a serving, not a full cup.

The shape of the hand for A or D chord is almost the same as C, F, or G -- but A or D has the middle fingered-note "sharped" ("sharping" or "flatting" is really only a half step between notes).

But that doesn't mean liberals really are a half-step from totalitarian socialism, or that conservative really are "anti-government" social Darwinists.

(When I lamented that intrusion, I was criticized by readers suggesting that I didn't know how bad it could be when you really had to cough during a concert. Oh, really? In a half-century of all-weather, all-health concertgoing?) The whine of a malfunctioning hearing aid is familiar to veteran performers and concertgoers.