How to Use half-pint in a Sentence
half-pint
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Makes 5 half-pint jars, or 5 cups.
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Senior Food Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2026
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Transfer to 2 clean half-pint jars, leaving about 1/2 inch headspace in each.
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Faye Levy,
Oc Register,
3 Dec. 2025
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Then stir in sugar, and ladle the hot jelly into half-pint canning jars.
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Andrea Beck,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 May 2026
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Add lemon herb orzo, garlic bacon Brussels sprouts or split pea soup in half-pint or pint sizes.
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Charlotte Observer,
11 June 2026
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The 100 Years of Summer bourbon winks at the past by packaging the hooch in the same half-pint bottle ol’ Annie used to hide.
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Kristin L. Wolfe,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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