half-pint
Example Sentences
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The tiny, half-pint cartons of milk served with millions of school lunches nationwide may soon be scarce in some cafeterias, with districts across the country scrambling to find alternatives.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
But her half-pint size makes Leia more vulnerable, which is likely a good thing for the character.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2022
The salmon is prepared for storage a variety of ways: dried for jerky, cut into fillets that are frozen, canned in half-pint jars or preserved in wooden barrels with salt.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
I killed the fruit flies for Kenneth Cooper, whose lab was up on the second floor, where he and his wife, Ruth, geneticists, raised them in half-pint glass milk bottles.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
He would hang his gun on the wall over the door, throw off his fur cap and coat and mittens, and call: “Where’s my little half-pint of sweet cider half drunk up?”
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
