Examples
“TEXTURE: A loose jelly with half-inch slivers of peel.”
“A dusting to a half-inch still appears within reach over the next few hours, especially south and east of the District.”
The Washington Post: Light snow dusting region, slick roads in spots
“South and east of the Beltway - in southern P.G., Anne Arundel, Calvert and Charles counties - it's been a rather thick dusting to as much as a half-inch in places.”
The Washington Post: Light snow dusting region, slick roads in spots
“All its designs offer three-inch heels and a hidden half-inch platform.”
The Huffington Post: Leora Tanenbaum: How to Wear High-Heeled Shoes and Walk at the Same Time
“If you insist on a platform, keep it to a half-inch or an inch.”
The Huffington Post: Leora Tanenbaum: How to Wear High-Heeled Shoes and Walk at the Same Time
“Still, I write in manuscript format (or what I use for my manuscripts): Dark Courier, 12 pt, half-inch para indents, exactly 24 points (to save paper, 'natch), so I think it gets pretty close.”
“Storekeeper, weight out three fathoms of your best half-inch manila.”
“Alignment for me is probably as critical as you could ever talk about, whether it's half-inch, quarter-inch...those are words that people don't have much to deal with.”
“Cut the white root what we consider the daikon into half-inch slices.”
The Huffington Post: Meg Wolff: Asian Superfoods Recipes: Daikon and Shitake
“Baltimore's total precipitation was 1.82 inches, also a record, almost a half-inch more than the previous high total 1.33 inches set in 1895.”
The Washington Post: Deep, wet snow sets records at Washington area airports
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘half-inch’.
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hyphenated halfs
are a lot of these halfs half-thought-out?
half-cocked, half-breed, half-bath, half-assed, half-a-buck, half-baked, half-dead, half-asleep, half-back, half-clothed, half-done, half-dozen and 74 more...
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by half
half as good as most lists
halfheimers, half time, halfhearted, half a mind to, half nelson, half caf, half and half, half-pint, half-cocked, half-wit, half again, half-crazed and 19 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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