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Definitions in simple English

halfway Adverb

— If something is halfway done, it is partly done, or partly that way. I was halfway between happy and sad. Don't do the job halfway, get it done. I was halfway home after driving an hour -- I would be home in one more hour. The runner can get water at the halfway point. — If you meet somebody halfway, both of you both agree by accepting part of what the other person is suggesting or offering. Look, I can't afford $100 for it, but I can meet you halfway.

halfway

— adverb at half the distance; at the middle he was halfway down the ladder when he fell — adjective (= center) equally distant from the extremes — adjective at a point midway between two extremes at the halfway mark — adjective including only half or a portion halfway measures

Synonyms halfway synonyms

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halfway English » English

midway middle on the way half in between center unfinished partway midpoint in-between in the middle central between waist semi partly partial midst median intermediate incomplete in the meantime half-way point half-cocked half-baked half measures half a ri by halves average along the way

Topics halfway topics

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States Parts of things

Middle

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in the middle halfway midway midpoint

Examples halfway examples

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Simple sentences

Tom met Mary halfway.

My zipper stuck halfway up.

I have been typing this report since this morning, but I'm only halfway through.

I am halfway through this detective story.

We went halfway up the mountain.

Halfway through the second chapter I realized I hadn't taken anything in.

Don't give up halfway.

I had to meet him halfway.

He turned back halfway.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

I'm halfway through this crime novel.

We still have more than halfway to go to get to the top of the mountain. Are you really already exhausted?

The runner had reached the halfway mark.

I'm sure you'll be sorry if you give it up halfway through.

The dog buried a frozen burrito in the yard, but only halfway into the ground.

Don't do anything halfway.

Won't you meet me halfway?

The train stopped at a point halfway between the two stations.

We're almost halfway done.

We're only halfway through.

We're halfway to Boston.

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Shouldn't you be halfway to Paris by now?

Why should they do that. when they're halfway through St Quentin already?

We could've met them halfway.

Your father will stop you before you get halfway to New York.

I think I can get America to meet him halfway.

The first time, we get halfway across when we run out of gasoline.

We get halfway over, when what do you think happened?

Now, why meet wars halfway?

What about my luggage? Unless your grandfather crossed me up, it's halfway home by now. So Grandfather's in this too.

Jeff was halfway to Wichita when the shooting occurred.

If you'd met me halfway, even when I came back from London.

You're halfway decent.

Darling, we're halfway from victory.

We meet you halfway.

He was halfway to Wichita when it occurred. You're barking up the wrong tree.

I slid halfway down the mountain before I realized. that Gustav didn't love me anymore.

Walter, you wouldn't know what it means to want to be respectable and live a halfway normal life.

Mother, please be fair and meet me halfway.

Halfway through the 10th, he run into my right hook. and forgot his name and address. You don't win fights with your hands and feet.

I've got one eyebrow halfway up my forehead and the other behind my left ear. Just a second.

He'd fill me full of lead before I got halfway through that door.

Walter, you wouldn't know what it means to. well, to want to be respectable and live a halfway normal life.

You wouldn't get halfway down that hall without being seen.

Well, according to this note, they ought to be about halfway.

I just happened to think of Chicago because. that's a little better than halfway and I can easily hitch a ride out of there.

Column halfway. March.

I imagine they meet you halfway.

I haven't been good, nor halfway good.

The hand throttle is set halfway down.

At the halfway mark, it's Lady Julia, Long Play, Amagansett, Bold Son and.

In the war, he walked halfway across Europe with a rifle in his hand.

News and current affairs

Absent a clear path to a much tighter fiscal and political union, which can lead only through constitutional change, the current halfway house of the euro system appears increasingly untenable.

Suppose, further, that by 2030 the transition to a low-carbon economy is halfway completed.

And when billions of our actions combine to create famines and floods halfway around the world, afflicting the poorest people in drought-prone Mali and Kenya, few of us are even dimly aware of the dangerous snares of global interconnectedness.

Greece has met its creditors' demands far more than halfway.

The effects of environmental change may occur only after many years and may be felt halfway around the world.

Halfway to the capital, the miners inflicted two humiliating defeats on police and security forces, injuring 30 soldiers and taking hundreds prisoner.

We are now at the halfway point.

Simply put, the government must meet the people halfway.

If the United States then met Europe halfway (at least), Ukraine's financial crisis could finally be contained.

Or perhaps the true culprits lie halfway around the world.

In recent decades, mental institutions and halfway houses have been closed in a wholesale way, often in the name of reforming care.

Later, he ordered Sarah Elmesallati, the host of the ceremony at which power was transferred to the GNC, to leave the stage halfway through her presentation because she was not wearing a headscarf.

If news outlets in physically remote open societies meet consumers in countries like China halfway, the benefits for both the Chinese and the bottom line could be enormous.

PARIS - It is now halfway to the target date of 2015 for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - the ambitious blueprint, backed by the entire development community, for development in the world's poorest countries.

The Greek crisis shows that Europe is still only halfway toward creating a viable monetary union.

Equipment and personnel needed to address the crisis were halfway around the world in Iraq.

WASHINGTON, DC - In the United States, the revolution for equality between men and women is stuck halfway.

Germany and South Africa were elected as non-permanent members at the same time, while Brazil and Nigeria are halfway through their two-year-terms.

Japan's lost decades are an outgrowth of this phenomenon; the US is now halfway through the first lost decade of its own.

More than halfway through that five-year period, the US is pretty much on track to meet that target, implying that export growth is ahead of import growth or growth in the global economy.

Then, once the European project is halfway over the cliff, the federalist moment might arrive.

Research shows that non-fossil fuel energy sources will - based on today's availability - get us less than halfway toward a path of stable carbon emissions by 2050, and only a tiny fraction of the way towards stabilization by 2100.

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