Examples of halve in a Sentence

The store is halving the price of many summer items.

Recent Examples on the Web Overall, spare capacity is set to almost halve to 1.7 million barrels a day next year, another report commissioned by OPEC said. — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022 Over the past 20 years, the foundation’s efforts have helped halve the fraction of people worldwide living in extreme poverty, Bill Gates wrote in a letter accompanying the announcement. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 13 July 2022 But things might be about to get better with new rules introduced Wednesday that should halve tourist traffic on the road -- while causing havoc with people's vacations. — Julia Buckley, CNN, 15 June 2022 Automakers are funneling billions into new battery designs that could halve charging times and double the range of current options. — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2022 Limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C (about 2.5 degrees F) will halve this exposure, but millions in the region will still be vulnerable to extreme heat stress. — Brooke Bowser, Scientific American, 10 May 2022 Oracle has set a target to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, and to halve their greenhouse gas emissions across their value chain by 2030. — Steve Banker, Forbes, 1 June 2022 As part of its goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by mid-century, the 27-nation bloc wants to halve the use of pesticides by 2030. — Samuel Petrequin, ajc, 24 May 2022 But the low-energy scenarios require the global vehicle fleet to nearly halve during the same period of time, shrinking to about 850 million cars and light trucks by 2050. — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2022 See More

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