How to Use halve in a Sentence

halve

verb

• The store is halving the price of many summer items.
• And the birth of the minivan halved the wagon's share again.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• Then, halve the lemon and squeeze the juice into the water.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
• Few in the crypto world seems to like the name halving.
  — Rafael Nam, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
• When the peaches have cooled, drain, peel, halve and pit them.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2024
• The growth of aquaculture has more than halved the U.S. shrimp fleet since the 1990s.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
• Peel and halve the eggs, placing them next to the potatoes on the platter.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
• Using a fork and a knife, halve the chile, then remove the stem and scrape the seeds off.
  — Pati Jinich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
• Make one batch at a time—do not halve or double the recipe.
  — Shelli McConnell, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2024
• Make one batch at a time; do not halve or double the recipe.
  — Sydney Novak, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2021
• The company’s share price has more than halved in the past year.
  — Sabah Meddings, Fortune Europe, 26 Mar. 2024
• Will there be a loss to miners as the reward is halved?
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
• To prepare the passion fruit, halve the fruit and scoop the pulp and seeds into a small bowl.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Feb. 2022
• This halved the gap between them and their white peers.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Note: To halve this recipe use 3 cups broth, ½ cup pasta, 2 eggs and 2 lemons.
  — Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 6 Nov. 2024
• If yours is smaller, halve the recipe or plan to churn it in batches.
  — Ann Maloney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Quarter or halve potatoes and put them in a large bowl.
  — Yakir Levy, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
• But Hagestad matched with a 15-foot birdie putt of his own to halve the hole and maintain a 1-up lead.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• To halve the number of deaths, as the WHO hopes to do, Nigeria would have to spend about 50 times that amount.
  — Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Strict rationing enabled the city to halve its water use and avert the worst.
  — CNN, 20 June 2022
• PacWest's shares have more than halved in value this year.
  — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
• Once halved and the seeds have been scooped out, use a melon baller to scoop out small balls of cantaloupe.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 June 2024
• Let cool, then halve and scoop out the flesh into a bowl, and mash with a fork until smooth.
  — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
• Here's how it's done: Peel and halve your butternut squash, then scoop out the seeds.
  — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 8 Oct. 2021
• Pick a buttercup squash with a firm cap, halve, scoop out the seeds, and bake to bring out the squash's sweetness.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2023
• On go the fabs, then, as Moore’s Law chugs like a train: double the performance, halve the cost.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• The share of Democrats who think of China as a partner has more than halved over the same period, to 7%.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2023
• To get the look, halve a papier-mache witch hat, then trace the cone part of the hat onto cardboard.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2022
• If using the broiler, halve the eggplant and brush the cut sides with canola or vegetable oil.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• Very large oysters can even be halved with the edge of that fork, although not easily.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024