meet halfway
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Nelse's ability to act humanely toward those who have previously wronged him suggests that reconciliation between whites and blacks is possible if both are willing to meet halfway."
- "In the essay, I proposed that the very best storytelling was the kind where the writer and reader meet halfway, the writer only painting fifty percent of the picture and forcing the reader to fill in the rest."
- "So please, dear, won't you let us come up and talk nicely together? . . . [W]e can get you out of this scrape if you will meet us halfway and be a nice sensible boy."
- "[T]imes are changin', West. Law's comin' into the country an' we old-timers oughta meet it halfway with the glad hand."
- ""Mr. Gromyko," said Herter himself early in the week, "appears to mistake the moves we have made to meet him halfway as signs of weakness.""
- "Marcovaldi declared: "I suggest that the differences be met halfway.""