half-pint
Example Sentences
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This kit includes everything you need to make eight luxurious rolls: two pounds of Maine knuckle and claw meat, eight open-top buns, a half-pint of lemony mayo, and the butter to toast the rolls in.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025
Milk was 25 cents a qt., coffee cream 23 cents a half-pint.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
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
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
The crew received a scant meal of hardtack, a strip of dried meat, and a half-pint of water.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
