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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
half-sister
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a half-sister (=a sister with only one parent the same as yours)
▪ She doesn't see her half-sister very often.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apart from his brother, he had one sister, one half-brother, and two half-sisters.
▪ Mitchell rented it from the half-sister of the owner, a schoolteacher gone to Toronto with her three chil-dren.
▪ Mrs Aitken, meet Shiona Fergusson, Kirsty's half-sister.
▪ Mrs Grant invites her younger half-sister Mary Crawford to live with her at the parsonage.
▪ The bees, they found, were more aggressive towards half-sisters.
▪ The more substantial is that the justices directed that T.'s contact with her older half-sister should be supervised.
▪ Tut, meanwhile, married his half-sister, Ankhesenamen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half-sister

Half-sister \Half"-sis`ter\ (-s[i^]s`t[~e]r), n. A sister by one parent only.

Wiktionary
half-sister

n. (alternative spelling of half sister English)

Usage examples of "half-sister".

Crown Prince and of Prince Ascendant Hyrcan, the snubs of her half-sisters.

Georg Mautner, occupied in a game room with Lupita Cascarin y Miron, half-sister to the Lady Dolores, amused himself by skewering a mouse with a dart and then favoring Beheim with a glance of hostile significance.

Maggie loved her elder half-sister and wished there was something she could do for her besides keep her company when she woke and see to it that her chamberpot was kept empty and her bedding spotless.

Izaea, Patwin's eldest daughter, was Kostas' niece through his wife Danladi, half-sister to the long-dead Rabia.

So, banking on Dictys to safekeep her, I'd set out for Samos on a tip from half-sister Athene, to learn about life from art: for represented in her temple murals there (and so reditto'd here in mine) were all three Gorgons -- snakehaired, swinetoothed, buzzardwinged, brassclawed -- whereof, as semiSis was pointing out, only the middle one, Medusa, was mortal, decapitable, and petrifacient.

The young bucks would come by on their big flippers to court my sisters and half-sisters.

The hor-monally treated virgin cows produced on the average as much milk as their half-sisters that were nursing calves to which they had given birth.

The Hyades, mythologically, were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the nymph Aethra, and they were half-sisters to the Pleiades.

I own a few distant cousins in Valenciaoutcome of the marriage of my grandsire's half-sister to one Conde Ernesto of that realmand one of my younger brothers is secretary to his eminence, Cardinal de los Llanos Luviosos de España, who presently is in Rome.

I own a few distant cousins in Valenciaoutcome of the marriage of my grandsire's half-sister to one Conde Ernesto of that realmand one of my younger brothers is secretary to his eminence, Cardinal de los Llanos Luviosos de Espa&ntilde.

She exemplifled the pervasive Kennedy orbit: A mobbed-up lounge lizard gave Jack speech lessons and forged a bond with his half-sister.

Then her mother and sisters and half-sisters had done the women's work of thatching, carefully combing the long grass stems and lacing the crisp bundles on to the wattle framework, packing and trimming and weaving them until the finished structure was smootll and symmetrical and the brushed grass stems shone like polished brass.