Examples of half an hour in a Sentence
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Surveillance footage shown at the trial depicted Santos brutally beating the sleeping victims with a large metal bar over the course of half an hour.
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
Just give me a half an hour to get this scene done.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2026
About half an hour from downtown, the lake itself is one of the Western Hemisphere's largest and saltiest inland bodies of water.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
The camera’s software detected movement about half an hour later, but no video is available.
—Connor Greene, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
Just give me a half an hour to get this scene done.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2026
About half an hour from downtown, the lake itself is one of the Western Hemisphere's largest and saltiest inland bodies of water.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
The camera’s software detected movement about half an hour later, but no video is available.
—Connor Greene, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for half an hour
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“Half an hour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half%20an%20hour. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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