How to Use halfway decent in a Sentence

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  • Agness needed to leave that man and find someone halfway decent to bring up her kid with, IMO.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 July 2022
  • Against a team with a halfway decent frontcourt and elite guards, Gonzaga could be in trouble.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
  • There had to be specific entities set up just to provide halfway decent care for some of these kids.
    — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Started in 2008, the event is a too-rare glimpse of what L.A. could look like without cars — or, at least, with some halfway decent cycling infrastructure.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • That might have been a halfway decent starting point for the new 10-episode season, but showrunner Kerry Ehrin punts, jumping ahead eight months to when the dust has mostly settled.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • There are halfway decent jokes that get run into the ground and subplots that spin their wheels for half the season; a tighter edit might have helped distill the series down to its best material.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
  • There was nothing that suggested that, given the right circumstances and a halfway decent villain to go up against, Daniel Craig couldn’t make for a perfectly capable James Bond.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Rug and Carpet Cleaning Almost any halfway decent robot vacuum can clean hardwood and bare floors.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 8 Jan. 2023
  • And, yes, quarantine room service will offer a halfway decent vegan spread.
    — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2022
  • In hard-to-fill roles, such as workers in restaurants, warehouses, fulfillment centers, hotels and other front-line jobs, managers were open to hiring anyone halfway decent.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The expectations on most of us in those years don’t go far beyond going to college or getting a job or being halfway decent citizens who don’t embarrass our families.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The maverick tech mogul has, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone with a halfway decent internet connection, become a stock character.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
  • In Arnold, Schwarzenegger finally offers a halfway decent apology for his actions.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
  • In Arnold, Schwarzenegger finally offers a halfway decent apology for his actions.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
  • Saw perhaps fell into a Terminator Trap, whereby lousy sequels soured the audience for when an actually halfway decent installment arrived.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 23 May 2021

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