How to Use halfway decent in a Sentence
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Those days are over, and most halfway decent liquor stores carry at least one brand of cassis.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 30 Dec. 2023
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There had to be specific entities set up just to provide halfway decent care for some of these kids.
—Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
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Morgan and Joanne have seemingly never met even a halfway decent guy in their lives.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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Against a team with a halfway decent frontcourt and elite guards, Gonzaga could be in trouble.
—Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
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Agness needed to leave that man and find someone halfway decent to bring up her kid with, IMO.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 July 2022
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In short, the higher the chances of the sneak-out scenario, the lower the chances of a halfway decent settlement with Iran.
—Jacques E. C. Hymans, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2014
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And, yes, quarantine room service will offer a halfway decent vegan spread.
—Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2022
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The thing is, the problem isn't just creating a nuclear fusion reaction – any halfway decent physics lab can do that on a benchtop.
—David Szondy july 05, New Atlas, 5 July 2026
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Gabby didn’t appear that much other than to organize what appears to be a halfway decent party after last year’s disaster.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024
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There are halfway decent jokes that get run into the ground and subplots that spin their wheels for half the season; a tighter edit might have helped distill the series down to its best material.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
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Rug and Carpet Cleaning Almost any halfway decent robot vacuum can clean hardwood and bare floors.
—Mike Richard, Men's Health, 8 Jan. 2023
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Now, with Jameis Winston under center and operating an offense that looks halfway decent, this young receiver has a chance to take off.
—Jesse Reed, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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In Arnold, Schwarzenegger finally offers a halfway decent apology for his actions.
—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
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The maverick tech mogul has, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone with a halfway decent internet connection, become a stock character.
—Judy Berman, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
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The expectations on most of us in those years don’t go far beyond going to college or getting a job or being halfway decent citizens who don’t embarrass our families.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2023
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In hard-to-fill roles, such as workers in restaurants, warehouses, fulfillment centers, hotels and other front-line jobs, managers were open to hiring anyone halfway decent.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
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That might have been a halfway decent starting point for the new 10-episode season, but showrunner Kerry Ehrin punts, jumping ahead eight months to when the dust has mostly settled.
—Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
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There was nothing that suggested that, given the right circumstances and a halfway decent villain to go up against, Daniel Craig couldn’t make for a perfectly capable James Bond.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
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Saw perhaps fell into a Terminator Trap, whereby lousy sequels soured the audience for when an actually halfway decent installment arrived.
—Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 23 May 2021
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