adverb
definition
Half of the way between two points; midway.
definition
Moderately; somewhat.
example
a halfway decent place to sleep
Examples of halfway in a Sentence
He climbed halfway up before he heard what sounded like a sob from behind him.
She couldn't remember the last time she felt halfway decent.
There was no one but the maid, who was halfway down the stairs.
She passed the halfway point and forced herself to keep going.
Driven from Subiaco by the jealousy and molestations of a neighbouring priest, but leaving behind him communities in his twelve monasteries, he himself, accompanied by a small band of disciples, journeyed south until he came to Cassino, a town halfway between Rome and Naples.
The reader is led very cleverly down a complete blind alley about halfway through.
The limestone pavement, with long porches on either side, was found to stop at the foot of a marble staircase of thirty-four steps of Byzantine construction, underneath which appeared a Roman arrangement of the two flights with a platform halfway up. The top flight led up to the propylaea.
For example he was " deeply concerned " about the " halfway house " of the present House of Lords.
Here, halfway through the experiment we seemed to be at the epicenter of the emotional disharmony on the island.
The interim review You must submit evidence of work at the halfway stage of your project.
Curious, she paused with the water bottle halfway to her mouth then set it down and flung the towel over her shoulder.
The only halfway pleasant phone call came from Norm Hunter in Norfolk.
Every part of his body ached and he could only bend his elbow halfway.
In the third he stands almost upright; in the first he kneels; in the second he stoops, halfway between the upright and the kneeling position.
These main shoots were not again to be shortened back, but from each of them three young shoots were to be selected and trained in two, on the upper side, one near the base, and the other halfway up, and one on the lower side placed about midway between these two; these with the leading shoot, which was also to be nailed in, made four branches of the current year from each of the ten main branches, and the form of the tree would therefore be that of fig.
A tall form stood halfway between the fire and them, flanked by two vamps.
But I did-n't come halfway across the United States to pass up a chance like this.
Along with the agency they have developed an evening for club bailiffs to be held at the Halfway in on 29 th April.
When the shutter button is depressed halfway, the power turns on again, and charging resumes.
Halfway through some cheeky chap mentioned how he wanted to strip off!
Grill the vegetables over Direct High heat until lightly charred, 6 to 8 minutes, turning once halfway through grilling time.
Weather partly cloudy, our first sun of the trip was seen halfway Denmark.
About halfway through we were greeted by a waitress with complimentary cocktails.
About halfway up the ladder route a human skull was noticed on a ledge.
He was hardly halfway across the stony field when one of the horse's shoes flew off.
Sober living involves residing at a halfway house of sorts with other recovering addicts.
Better yet, make it a stop halfway through the ride.
Her heart leapt, and she stood, halfway to him before his sharp look reminded her he wasn't someone she wanted to approach.
She'd made it halfway up the stairwell when his voice rang out.
She was halfway to the portal when the low, unfamiliar voice reached her.
Halfway through his beer the sports argument became spirited enough that Dean took the opportunity to rise and cross to the payphone behind him.
Halfway around, she dropped again, emerging back into the desert a few feet from the other portal.
But the belief died hard; the synthesis of urea remained isolated for many years; and many explanations were attempted by the vitalists (as, for instance, that urea was halfway between the inorganic and organic kingdoms, or that the carbon, from which it was obtained, retained the essentials of this hypothetical vital force), but only to succumb at a later date to the indubitable fact that the same laws of chemical combination prevail in both the animate and inanimate kingdoms, and that the artificial or laboratory synthesis of any substance, either inorganic or organic, is but a question of time, once its constitution is determined.'.
But the routes to be followed were difficult to find in the dark, the ascent was rapid, the ground was much broken, and the enemy opposed a stubborn resistance to the advance, with the result that this was greatly retarded, and that at daybreak the most forward of the columns was not much more than halfway up. The Ottoman staff had, moreover, on the first alarm begun to hurry reinforcements on the Sari Bair from the rear, while the Allied troops were so much exhausted by their nocturnal experiences that all attempts to win the upper ridge failed on the 7th.
A strong machicolated and turreted wall surrounds the rock, running along its base on the south, ascending halfway up the cliff on the north, on which side it stands close to the abbey wall, and again descending on the west.
During his return to Constantinople Jovian was found dead in his bed at Dadastana, halfway between Ancyra and Nicaea.
At the narrowest point the plain of Sibari, through which the rivers Coscile (Sybaris) and Crati (Crathis) flow to the sea, occurs on the east coast, extending halfway across the peninsula.
A short way down the Rhine is the Bingerloch, a famous whirlpool, while about halfway between it and the town rises on a rock in the middle of the stream the Ml useturm (derived from Muserie, cannon), in which, according to legend, Archbishop Hatto II.
Damian made it halfway to the grass, where the Black God paced beside a calm Jenn, when Xander's low voice stopped him.
According to the brief phone call, the ten-year-old girl's natural mother, another loser like faux foster mother Janet, had been recently discharged to a halfway house after doing hard time in the state's Cañon City facility.
Gabe was halfway across the gym where the Immortal foot soldiers were training before he knew where he was.
Halfway through his beer the sports argument became spirited enough that Dean took the opportunity to rise and cross to the payphone behind him.
I was foot loose and fancy free, I hadn't had any female encumbrances since halfway through my training - oh well.
Surrounded by birch and spruce forest, Murmansk is almost halfway between Moscow and the North Pole.
Nonetheless, about halfway home a sudden and vicious gust of wind literally stopped me in my tracks.
Halfway along the creek we see a white heron on the bank.
We choose to walk up the steep hill to the mid Halfway Station.
There was a small kopje, about halfway between ours and their position, which was not occupied.
On the 22nd of June a large horse leech was found in a puddle halfway down the cave.
It was around the halfway mark, lap five, that it really got lively!