half sister


Origin of half sister

1
Middle English word dating back to 1150–1200

Words Nearby half sister

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How to use half sister in a sentence

  • I also had a daughter and son-in-law who were about the age of her half-brother and half-sister.

    I Helped Save Claus von Bulow | Andrea Reynolds | December 9, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Her ladyship was a half-sister of their father's, and from the height of her grandeur magnanimously patronizing now and then.

    Theo | Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • They were to start the next day, accompanied by Mrs. Suydam's very amenable half-sister.

    The Open Question | Elizabeth Robins
  • Duncan held a faint impression that his half-sister had never been at all partial to this near neighbor of his.

    Hubert's Wife | Minnie Mary Lee
  • This half sister, twelve years younger than herself, had come and gone like some happy dream in Miss Virginia's life.

  • He had a half-sister much younger than himself who once visited here on her way South.

British Dictionary definitions for half-sister

half-sister

noun
  1. the daughter of either of one's parents by another partner

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