How to Use half hour in a Sentence

half hour

noun
  • I waited a half hour in line.
  • Trains depart every half hour.
  • Go back and forth for the full half hour.
    — Danielle Zickl, Outside, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Cook 1 to 1-and-one-half hours.
    — Kathryn Gregory, Louisville Courier Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But this lasted for about a half hour.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But this lasted for about a half hour.
    — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Less than a half hour later, the snow cleared.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Tours run every half hour and are open to all ages.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The process will take about five-and-a-half hours to complete.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Mike came to our campsite a half hour later.
    — Maggie Slepian, Outside, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Doors open a half hour before for the open seating.
    — Heather McRea, Oc Register, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The fire was put out about a half hour after crews arrived.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Every half hour or so a flock of chickadees swirls around me.
    — Brian Mann, NPR, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The mixed relay takes about a half hour to complete.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Miami is about a half hour south.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Jurors took two-and-a-half hours to reach the sentence.
    — Doug Myers, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • Wasted about two and a half hours of my time, and nobody knew about it.
    — Megan Shinn, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Heredia sits about a half hour from San Jose.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 May 2026
  • In discrete-only mode, that dropped to just over four and a half hours.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 27 May 2018
  • That’s a two and a half hour drive from home to practice and play softball.
    — Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Two-thirds of the new routes have buses that come at least every half hour.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Try to get up for a few minutes every half hour and stretch, stand, and walk around.
    — Anne Harding, Health, 19 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Riverside staffers seemed unaware and couldn’t find a key to the room for a good half hour.
    — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The creation of that dinner fills the first half hour of the story.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The vote came after a meeting in closed session for about a half hour.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Mrs Chan spent four-and-a-half hours among the marchers on June 9th.
    — The Economist, 13 June 2019
  • But half hour before kickoff, see a lot of orange.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2026

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