halfpence

variants or halfpennies
plural of halfpenny

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfpence
Noun
  • The original has a larger tank capacity (a whopping 48 ounces in comparison to the mini’s 16-ounce tank) that might be a better fit for people who are tackling messes left and right throughout their home.
    Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Mix 1–2 tablespoons of ACV with at least 8 ounces of water.
    Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 6 Oct. 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
  • There are so many life lessons packed into baking a simple birthday cake or a blueberry muffin, and not just how to do fractions.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Even if a harvester can outgas regolith reliably, separating minute traces of helium-3 from helium-4 and other gases at low mass fractions requires sophisticated cryogenic or membrane systems.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Yes, these flecks are seeds that were once inside of a vanilla bean, confirms Britton.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
  • This uncanny coincidence — that the Earth’s radiation lines up with the energies of carbon dioxide’s mixed vibrational/rotational quantum state — is how this tiny trace of molecules, mere flecks in the air, completely dominates our climate.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Traditional models rely on cesium atoms ticking more than 10 billion times per second.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
  • These external influences excite the molecules and atoms in the rings, creating ions.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Incensed at being outsmarted, the CEO of Weyland-Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindive) allows one of her employees, a cyborg with very few scruples named Morrow (Babou Ceesay), to use any means necessary to reacquire the biological specimens.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • At this point in its history, the theory goes, the United States requires a willful and largely unaccountable power to impose changes that leaders with more delicate sensibilities and procedural scruples cannot ever accomplish.
    Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The shreds will quickly soften in a few minutes at room temperature.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The film’s devastating revelations of intimate betrayals dispel nostalgia and sentiment down to the last shreds.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This would either be an acaricide — a pesticide that kills ticks and mites, and is found in many pet flea collars and tick medications — or a vaccine that would make the deer more resistant to Lyme disease over time.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Although mites are arachnids, the most common garden insect pests, namely aphids, scales, mealybugs, and whiteflies, all suck from plant foliage with stylets.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
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“Halfpence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfpence. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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