: midway between two points
At length the cat steps halfway out the door, showing his spotted brown coat and the stripes on his legs.—
Paul Comstock
Paul Comstock1
: midway between two points
at the halfway point/mark
2
: partial
a halfway solution
Examples of halfway in a Sentence
Adjective
She was leading at the halfway mark of the race.
We're halfway toward completing the project.
They're only offering halfway measures, not a real solution.
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Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2026
Didier—tall, blondish, and well fed—took a black iron pan having fairly high, curving sides, set it near the edge of the hot, flat metal cooktop, filled it halfway with coarse salt, and every so often shook it back and forth.
—Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2026
Liam Twomey, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
The second line scored a highlight-reel goal to make it 4-0 before the halfway point of the period.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2026
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Adverb
Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts.
—Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2026
Didier—tall, blondish, and well fed—took a black iron pan having fairly high, curving sides, set it near the edge of the hot, flat metal cooktop, filled it halfway with coarse salt, and every so often shook it back and forth.
—Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
One of his right-footed attempts, uncorked with minimal backlift, crashes against the bar with such force that the noise reverberates around the ground and the ball bounces out towards the halfway line.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
The second line scored a highlight-reel goal to make it 4-0 before the halfway point of the period.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2026
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“Halfway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halfway. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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halfway
adjective
half·way
-ˈwā 
1
: midway between two points
stop at the halfway mark
2
: partial sense 3
halfway measures
halfway
adverb
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