How to Use half-pint in a Sentence

half-pint

adjective
  • Makes 5 half-pint jars, or 5 cups.
    — Senior Food Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
  • Transfer to 2 clean half-pint jars, leaving about 1/2 inch headspace in each.
    — Faye Levy, Oc Register, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Then stir in sugar, and ladle the hot jelly into half-pint canning jars.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2026
  • Add lemon herb orzo, garlic bacon Brussels sprouts or split pea soup in half-pint or pint sizes.
    — Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
  • The 100 Years of Summer bourbon winks at the past by packaging the hooch in the same half-pint bottle ol’ Annie used to hide.
    — Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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