Definition: 1. Equally distant from the extremes. 2. At a point midway between two extremes. 3. Including only half or a portion. 4. At half the distance; at the middle.
Use 'halfway' in a sentence:
1. All I had to do was be halfway cool.
2. Adult prisoners released under the pre-release employment scheme are housed in a halfway house.
3. He lost his way halfway to the shop.
4. Dickon said again when they met halfway.
5. I started to watch the clock about halfway through the class.
6. It was a steep climb, so we rested for a while halfway up the hill.
7. The car broke down on the halfway.
8. There is the bird, sitting on a twig halfway up the tree.
9. Many food packages are flown halfway across the earth.
10. Because of the dense fog, we have to stop our journey halfway.
11. You will surely achieve your dream if you don't give it up halfway.
12. The Newton Hotel is halfway up a steep hill.
13. A house is halfway up the hill.
14. It's about halfway between London and Bristol.
15. We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.
16. We must carry the experiment through to the end, not give up halfway.
17. On the basis that recognising the problem is halfway to a solution, Mulcahy's comments yesterday should be well received.
18. Because the taxi broke down halfway.
19. Halfway up the hill, we sat down to catch our breath.
20. She was halfway down when she heard the noise.
21. By then, it was October and we were more than halfway through our tour.
22. I halfway expected her to tell me it was none of my business.
23. The spider fell off the wall halfway.
24. I'm afraid we're not even halfway there yet.
25. It's a big step giving up your job and moving halfway across the world.
26. About the time the three climbers were halfway down, clouds blotted out the sun.
27. The car conked out halfway up the hill.
28. I decided to paint the bathroom ceiling but ran out of steam halfway through.
29. Halfway through this remarkable quotation, the girl morphs into the monk.
30. The carpet only reached halfway across the room.
31. You need hard currency to get anything halfway decent.
32. If there'd been a halfway decent house for rent on this island, I would have taken it. But it was no dice.
33. A halfway house between the theatre and cinema is possible. Olivier created one in his imaginative 'Henry V' in 1945.
34. Halfway down the cigarette she had a fit of coughing.
35. We live roughly halfway between here and the coast.
36. He pulled the cap halfway over his ears.
37. He was halfway up the ladder.
38. Cleveland held a 12-point advantage at the halfway point.
39. Halfway through the chapter I realized I hadn't taken anything in.
40. Any halfway decent map will give you that information.
41. This only goes halfway to explaining what really happened.
42. He left halfway through the ceremony.
43. The Democrats are willing to meet the president halfway.
44. The climbers made camp halfway up the peak.
45. Jim is halfway to attaining his pilot's licence.
