How to Use half-price in a Sentence

half-price

adjective
  • Happy hour runs noon to 7 p.m. with half-price well drinks, drafts and $5 house wines.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Tickets start at $10 for children and $17 for adults for the first ride, and the second ride is half-price.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Also, this is the only time that all children’s books will be half-price.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Everyone ends up at the store, where a rabid mob is ready to snatch all of those half-price deals and free waffle irons.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Students qualify for a half-price subscription(Opens in a new window) at $6.99 per month.
    Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Metro Lift, a new program that will mean half-price fares for low-income riders, also will start later this month.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
  • Metro already offers half-price fares to seniors and disabled riders, while D.C. provides school-age children with free fare cards.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The Salt Line is opening early at noon, and happy hour runs until 6 p.m. with half-price local oysters, discounted wine and draft beer and cocktails.
    Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In the meantime, get familiar with the dart board, the pool table, the beer pong station, the giant Jenga, the daily beer/shot/liquor specials and the Monday appeal of half-price everything, with guest bartenders.
    Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Think shorts and tank tops crowded together on clearance racks in late July, or winter hats and gloves available at half-price after the holidays.
    Megan Arnold, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Once everything’s out of your system, there are half-price cocktails, a DJ, karaoke and plenty of room to mingle (4 p.m. Free entry; games including ax throwing and drinks extra).
    Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Gauthier was one of several people wandering the shelter aisles for the final day of a Memorial Day weekend half-price adoption event, where the shelter slashed fees in the hopes of clearing out some kennels.
    oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The state offers half-price licenses to veterans, and many psychedelic therapy practitioners will work with them on a sliding scale.
    Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Consider adding a half-price select bottle of wine to your meal.
    Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Herbs & Rye This restaurant has built a cult following around its half-price steak happy hour, said Politz.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025

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