better halves
Example Sentences
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They dominated them in one of the better halves they’ve played this season.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2022
I often hear patients blame themselves, and I've even seen spouses blame their better halves right to their face.
From US News • Jun. 3, 2015
The week before that, they — and their better halves — broke bread to celebrate the Cranstons' 25th wedding anniversary.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2014
Or at least think about it, dream about it, while their better halves are curled up in the bed, facing the wall, like in Hopper’s “Excursions into Philosophy.”
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2013
We were all alike disturbed and miserable at the unaccountable absence of our better halves.
From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)
