half-pint
Example Sentences
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The prices of two frozen pie crusts and a half-pint of whipping cream rose by 26% to $3.68 and $2.24, respectively.
From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2022
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
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
