halfpence

variants or halfpennies
plural of halfpenny

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • Fill the reservoir with less water for a stronger brew or up to 12 ounces for a large cup.
    Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
  • If your recipe includes a measurement for honey in ounces, use a kitchen scale instead of your liquid measuring cup.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • And these nutshells that are now all restored have been used for that purpose for more than eight decades.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In 2007, McKeller released her first book, Math Doesn’t Suck, demystifying concepts like fractions, decimals, percents, and algebra for girls in middle school.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Those fractions may look small, but ozone chemistry is anything but linear.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Nice vanilla bean flecks and round, fatty flavor with only the subtlest hint of coconut.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Oct. 2025
  • And Abrams-Draine still managed to emerge with just a few flecks of soot after getting thrown in the fire last season, picking off Justin Herbert in a loss to the Chargers and establishing himself as a building block in a spot start.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Particle beams- streams of atoms or subatomic particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light – have long been considered the holy grail of space warfare.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Just like you and me are built out of the same atoms, every image is built out of the same pixels.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • For Jay Gatsby, a man of immense wealth and few scruples, almost nothing is beyond his voracious appetite for excess.
    David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Luckily Florida has no such scruples.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But the unfixed nature of trauma colors even the most vivid of memories with shreds of doubt.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The Riverside native shreds lesser defenses beyond the arc and above the break.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Use a magnifying glass, and look on the underside of foliage where mites like to hide.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The best down alternative pillows, however, are popular for resembling down without the dust and mites that can often wreak havoc on sinuses overnight.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Halfpence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfpence. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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