1, I swilled down the half-pint of champagne as if it was bitter lemon.

2, As we sat and sipped our half-pint shandies I reflected on what a lucky choice of company I had made.

3, It became a joke to ply him with half-pints of beer and fantasies about each other's unfitness for battle.

4, A man called Carroll thereupon produced a half-pint of whiskey, and they all drank to the soul of the departed.

5, That said, a $20 half-pint of vodka will get you just as buzzed as $100 worth of drinks at the bar.

6, General Chen Cheng, chief of staff and a half-pint counterpart of the generalissimo, lost nearly every battle he directed in the Japanese and the civil wars.

7, A drink was defined as a small glass of wine, a half-pint of beer or a single serving of hard alcohol.

8, BEIJING –Shawn Johnson came here to win four gold medals, a half-pint, half-Phelps.