How to Use by half in a Sentence

by half

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• Shear it back by half at this time to encourage new growth and flowers.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 7 July 2026
• Argentina have been ahead by half-time in both their games at the time of writing.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 27 June 2026
• Being able to grapple with that, make the investments and cut our footprint by half [has been a big step.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 20 July 2026
• In the adjacent room, the original dining area was reduced by half to make room for Khechemyan’s dream kitchen.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
• SpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.
  — Bernard Condon, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
• The team found that, at best, these factors offset AI’s potential to reduce budget deficits by half.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 2 July 2026
• Layer half of cookies, slightly overlapping, followed by half of bananas and half of strawberries.
  — Martha Stewart, 17 July 2026
• Cut Stems Back By Half Help leggy petunias grow bushier by cutting the plant back by half.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 July 2026
• Further, the hinge mechanism provides a bit more assistance, and the magnets are a bit weaker, reducing the force needed to open the phone by half.
  — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 22 July 2026
• Then, weeks after the conflict broke out, the country abruptly slashed its oil purchases, eventually cutting them by half compared with prewar levels.
  — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 29 July 2026
• Their tardiness, which saw the start delayed by half an hour, was continued on the field with India looking like a rabble in the face of the onslaught from Buttler and Brook.
  — Paul Newman, New York Times, 12 July 2026
• Aspen’s population declined by half after the silver crash, and the economy of the Roaring Fork valley turned to farming and ranching.
  — John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 July 2026
• With the incoming fall class, the number of students from families earning $100,000 to $200,000 has increased by half, Leach said.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 8 July 2026
• Meanwhile, in the Department of Justice, the Education Opportunities Section has shrunk by half, according to estimates provided by Justice Connection, a network of department alumni.
  — Heather Hollingsworth, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026