Definition of half sister
: a sister related through one parent only
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Examples of half sister in a Sentence
Emily is my half sister.
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His half sisters had come and gone between Mexico and the United States.
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His half sisters had come and gone between Mexico and the United States.
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His half sisters had come and gone between Mexico and the United States.
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Mary Ann Moroney, after giving up her baby boy for adoption, then marrying a man named John Lane, went on to have a daughter named Patricia Lane -- Palmer's biological half sister -- but Patricia died of leukemia in 1987 at the age of 40.
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Will her loquacious half sister, Samantha Grant, be interviewed?
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His mom, Cindy, had been vague about his lineage, content to be a strong-willed, single-mom raising her son, playing catch and making mud pies with him and his half sisters and brothers who came later.
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Kendall Jenner's tone-deaf Pepsi ad upset many (from everyday tweeters to Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter), but Kim Kardashian assures that her half sister didn't mean to cause harm.
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Rose McGowan later stepped in playing a half sister after Doherty's character was killed off.
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First Known Use of half sister
13th century
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Definition of half sister for English Language Learners
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: a sister with the same father but a different mother or the same mother but a different father
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