How to Use half hour in a Sentence

half hour

noun

• I waited a half hour in line.
• Trains depart every half hour.
• Mrs Chan spent four-and-a-half hours among the marchers on June 9th.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2019
• The battery should last for about two and a half hours.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 5 May 2018
• The entire eclipse spanned around three-and-a-half hours.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2019
• Pliny took naval quadriremes, the largest ships in his fleet, on the three-and-a-half hour trip across the bay.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2021
• The movie is a long haul, running more than two and a half hours.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
• The complete process takes about three and a half hours — all for a night out.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 2 Nov. 2017
• The creation of that dinner fills the first half hour of the story.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• That means three and a half hours of extra time in my week.
  — Kathryn Crawford Saxer, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2018
• The train returns to Ely about two and a half hours later.
  — Jay Jones, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• And the action in the final half hour, when Graf goes for broke, can go toe-to-toe with the best.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
• That’s a two and a half hour drive from home to practice and play softball.
  — Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• After a back-and-forth first half hour, the Timbers broke through.
  — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
• If your load is around 10 watts, APC says the battery will last around three and a half hours.
  — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 9 Oct. 2018
• The plane left at 10:17 a.m., about three and a half hours later then scheduled.
  — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2019
• In discrete-only mode, that dropped to just over four and a half hours.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 27 May 2018
• Everyone had to leave me alone in my room for a half hour.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• Maybe the first half hour was a little bit nerve-wracking.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024
• Rick and Lisa Schardein made the two-and-a-half hour drive up from Louisville and booked a hotel room for the night.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2022
• Rain will be heavy in some areas, falling at the rate of up to 1 inch per half hour, the NWS said.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
• Pikeville is about three and a half hours east of Charlotte, in Wayne County.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 8 Feb. 2018
• With the turbo function on we felt the difference in the space in just a half hour.
  — Elizabeth Marino, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
• Then where does a 30-plus song setlist over two and a half hours fall on the stamina-ometer?
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 2 May 2017
• What, in the three and a half hours of The Irishman, is truly surprising?
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
• Camille*, 30, used to get home from her one-and-a-half hour commute and pour herself a drink.
  — Alexandra Svokos, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2022
• Try to get up for a few minutes every half hour and stretch, stand, and walk around.
  — Anne Harding, Health, 19 Jan. 2024
• Kelce's comment garnered over 1700 likes and dozens of replies in less than a half hour.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
• Odense is on the island of Funen and an hour-and-a-half hour train ride west of Copenhagen.
  — Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• The game was paused for about a half hour as four emergency lights lit up the corners.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024