Dusty was a full head taller, and a half-step behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch of Evil] Reference

Leane took a half-step forward, not looking at Siuan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

COOPER: For the CIA today, it was a half-step forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 8, 2006] Reference

I took a quick half-step behind Jamie, grabbing his arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

He unconsciously backed away from the window a half-step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch of Evil] Reference

But half a step had to be completed by-another half-step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

He relaxed his hold on her as she took a half-step backward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obedient Bride]

His answer was so abrupt, she actually took a half-step back.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

BEAT-beat'that sound was less than the others, like a half-step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

But genuine autonomy need not be a half-step toward independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cultural Autonomy for Tibet] Reference

Imriel followed Joscelin and me, lingering a half-step behind us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

He jumped back a half-step, as if startled by my hostile reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch of Evil] Reference

Then she backed up a half-step and punched me, hard, in the shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest]

I pulled my head back, freeing myself, and took a half-step backward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

She turned quickly, which startled Billy, pushing him a half-step back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 4] Reference

She took a half-step forward, her body shielding the old man as she added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survivors]

Megaera smiles brightly, falsely, at Hyel, who retreats another half-step.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Towers of the Sunset]

TOM MOON: To really appreciate Elis Regina, start with the lowly half-step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elis Regina: The Feeling Between The Notes] Reference

She staggered backward a half-step, her legs tangling in the broken foliage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch of Evil] Reference

I take a tentative half-step forward; my fingers touch a grooved metal panel.    From Wordnik.com.  [A King of Infinite Space]

Startled by his completely unexpected behavior, she took a half-step backward.    From Wordnik.com.  [DragonFlight]

When the Right needs to manufacture facts whole cloth, we're a half-step ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politico Story Saying Reid Called Generals "Incompetent" Is Denied] Reference

She took one half-step forward so that she touched him from knees to shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond the Sunrise]

Four AKs were turning on him, Rourke taking a half-step back, his pistols raised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Is Coming]

They were moving fast in the hope of staying a half-step ahead of Hester Crimstein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tell No One]

I mean, they're good company, they're very warm, but they're always a half-step back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashbacks On Returning to Vietnam] Reference

Such reorganization is urgently needed but by itself will constitute only a half-step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karin Lissakers: Only Transparency Can Permanently Fix the Mess at the MMS] Reference

And the blond raised her eyebrows, smirked just a bit, and staggered forward a half-step.    From Wordnik.com.  [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference

A strangely brief (economical) buildup involving an odd, brief modulation down a half-step.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - was expecting a free tea kettle from Granada TV. It did not materialise.] Reference

The healer took a half-step toward the still-shuttered window, then turned, still smiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colors of Chaos]

Edith reached out as if to touch Jodi, but Jodi took a half-step back, her hands at her side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Girl Blue]

Campion was venturing a half-step closer when a piece of drapery passed once over the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

The colonel took another half-step forward and reached out a hand as if to take her by the arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slightly Married]

Speeding up to a half jog, his pulse a half-step faster, Alec scanned each inset ramp he passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Many Bosses]

If ever there were an opportunity for both sides to meet in the middle, with just a half-step by both, this is it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans Have a Prescription for Congressional Health Care Delirium] Reference

They are also upside-down, debt-loaded hardly a half-step from food stamps like the rest of us, in the debtor class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did anyone else notice...] Reference

We have heard it argued that the Holt bill is a half-step in the right direction, and that some reform is surely preferable to none at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Crispin Miller: Let's Get Off The Paper Trail] Reference