Example Sentences

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Most turbulent cities: Chicago, "as full of crooks as a saw with teeth"; Kansas City, Mo., "the best boogie-woogie town" in the land, "a kind of middle-western Babylon."

From Time Magazine Archive

But, towards the middle of their middle-aged whisk through middle-western clubs and universities, the fury of the writing flags .

From Time Magazine Archive

Dale's house, on the back 80, is a prosperous middle-western farm home with all possible conveniences.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the Poet Laureate of England, imported for the little middle-western boys and girls to gaze upon.

From Time Magazine Archive

My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald