How to Use halfway in a Sentence

halfway

1 of 2 adverb
  • Fill a rocks glass halfway with ice.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2026
  • Of course, halfway is not all the way.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Let life meet you halfway this month.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
  • And the decade isn’t even halfway over.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This is not the type of thing that can be done halfway.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But the system has to meet him halfway.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Falzone struck his head about halfway down the steps.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 9 May 2026
  • Place ramekins in a large pot and add water halfway up the sides.
    — Gretchen McKay, Boston Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Look at the two men, halfway down, holding lights.
    — Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Hulst was not even halfway through his sophomore year.
    — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
  • This year, love asks you to show up fully, not halfway.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Roughly halfway there was a light ahead.
    — Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • This job changed my life and carried me halfway around the world.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Traoré, for his part, says the game is starting to meet him halfway.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Jupiter does not do anything halfway.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • Like he wasn’t supposed to have found his own way home and be halfway there by now.
    — Staci Robinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Celtic have marched halfway back to another nine in a row.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That puts me somewhere like halfway between the two at east or west.
    — Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Grandma isn’t going halfway on game day food in the fall.
    — Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
  • On Sunday, their stop at the park came halfway through a busy day.
    — Anna Spoerre, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
  • Neither artist did things halfway.
    — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Fill the pan with boiling water halfway up the ramekins.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Transfer dough to bag, filling no more than halfway at a time.
    — Jenavieve Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Here are three Sox takeaways halfway through their six-game trip.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The planets will stretch from the horizon line to around halfway up the night sky.
    — Maddie Burakoff, ajc, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Even halfway around the world, that focus on technique holds true.
    — Annie Daly, SELF, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But halfway up the trail, Nguyen feared the worst when his leg began to hurt.
    — Samantha Chaney, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • His partner should be willing to explore how to meet him at least halfway.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Let the outer abundance meet you halfway.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Fill a mason jar halfway up with water and place the fern clipping in the glass jar.
    — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 22 June 2026

halfway

2 of 2 adjective
  • She was leading at the halfway mark of the race.
  • We're halfway toward completing the project.
  • They're only offering halfway measures, not a real solution.
  • The halfway point in the season is already here for a few teams.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Pink’s ninth studio album takes a strong lead at halfway stage.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Twist your wrists outward so that your palms face the ceiling at the halfway point.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
  • Their record at the playoffs' halfway point disagrees.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • The highlight of the film, a car chase through the streets of Paris, comes near the halfway point.
    — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Your compost bin is like a halfway point between the kitchen and your final compost pile.
    — Arricca Sansone, Treehugger, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Teamsters filled coal wagons only to the halfway mark to lighten the load.
    — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Those are badly lagging at the halfway point to their 2030 due date.
    — Edith M. Lederer, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The verbal autopsies would have to be done at the hospital, or at some halfway point.
    — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The halfway moment strikes a cool chord as summer's sweltering last days simmer to a close.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The pandemic has led many people to find themselves in a halfway stage—furlough.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • The season is not even halfway complete, but the three-way dance should be entertaining.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 19 June 2017
  • Bake for 30 minutes, reversing the sheets front to back and top to bottom at the halfway point.
    — Jacalyn Carfagno, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Dude’s pretty darn good with halfway decent quarterback play.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 24 June 2026
  • One highlight of the sale will be a car made near the halfway point in the progression of the automobile so far.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The halfway point of the Greater Cincinnati high school baseball season is upon us.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The top women went out slow — at least based on their standards — which meant that a large leading pack remained intact well past the halfway point.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • But by the halfway point, the two Republicans were sparring with each other.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Center back Sebastien Ibeagha turned the ball over right over the halfway line to Garcia.
    — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The band swelled up behind her at the halfway point, only to remove themselves from the stage entirely for the finish.
    — Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2023
  • After the final whistle, City’s players ran from the halfway line and jumped for joy in front of their fans waving blue and white flags.
    — Steve Douglas, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • The project, which began on Wednesday to shore up the bridge damaged by a semi crash earlier that day, has since passed the halfway mark.
    — The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2023
  • Palou dropped to 26th at the halfway point and VeeKay received a penalty for avoidable contact.
    — CBS News, 28 May 2023
  • The Kraken would score two more after that to take a 4-0 lead before the halfway mark in the second period.
    — Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
  • Philadelphia also conceivably could reach the halfway point with a perfect record.
    — Mike Jones, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There are two very distinct lenses through which to regard the Cincinnati Bengals at the quasi-halfway point in the season.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Seavey was the first musher to reach the Cripple checkpoint, which is the halfway point of the race, officials said Wednesday night.
    — CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024

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