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Examples

  • Everyone is going crazy upstairs over the halfempty demolitions bag Carlson was found with.

    State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

  • Everyone is going crazy upstairs over the halfempty demolitions bag Carlson was found with.

    State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

  • Everyone is going crazy upstairs over the halfempty demolitions bag Carlson was found with.

    State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

  • He took the remains of the brandy with him, clutching the halfempty bottle in one clawed hand and tossing out benedictions with the other.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • She found Benteen slumped over the table, the whiskey bottle more than halfempty.

    This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982

  • She found Benteen slumped over the table, the whiskey bottle more than halfempty.

    This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982

  • Plumtree's potted meat, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing one Jersey pear, a halfempty bottle of William Gilbey and

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Back at Le Royale, Trullie doesn't know what to do with a lit butt, so I take it from her fingers and put it out in a halfempty glass.

    New York Press 2009

  • Back at Le Royale, Trullie doesn't know what to do with a lit butt, so I take it from her fingers and put it out in a halfempty glass.

    New York Press 2009

  • 'In our opinion, Tesco's glass is half-full, not halfempty,' said Clive Black, of stockbroker Shore Capital.

    This is Money | Home 2009

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