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