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half-long

[ haf-lawng, -long, hahf- ]

adjective

, Phonetics.
  1. (of a speech sound) of intermediate length; neither short nor fully long.


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Example Sentences

Now he might die there after enduring a month-and-a-half-long hunger strike.

Both waved to the roaring crowds as they made their way along the mile-and-a-half-long route in the royal Bentley.

Rachel had just gotten out of a year-and-a-half-long relationship with, unbeknownst to her, a married man.

My statement was a page and a half long, and had a few things to offer.

Body one inch and five-eighths, head half an inch, tail two inches and a half long.

They walk on four feet, and are nearly a foot and a half long, from the point of the muzzle to the origin of the tail.

He goes on all fours, and is about a foot and a half long from the muzzle to the insertion of the tail.

He is about a foot and a half long, and his tail is longer than the head and body together; he walks on all fours.

This animal goes on all fours, and is about a foot and an half long, from the tip of the nose to the insertion of the tail.

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