middle
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
And if the moment calls, "pop a squat in the middle of the field".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
And alongside the fitness boom, hiking shoes and yoga pants and other types of athletic gear have become aspirational styles for China’s middle class—even for those who don’t work out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
For her part, Cunningham says she is "not a very political person" and "very much in the middle," but spoke out because of her moral beliefs, and her expertise as a top female athlete.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Don’t play it safe by aiming for the middle.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
In the middle of the second week, hospital authorities arranged a ride for me on a food truck headed south.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
We love the criminal trial for the same reason Shakespeare and Court TV loved them: Morality plays, gripping narratives, heroes and villains, and the story that begins and middles and ends.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2023
“We take to fiction, I suppose, because no such thing is going to happen, and at least on the printed page we can observe beginnings, middles and ends, and can find where morality resides.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
I thought I played pretty well, but we talked about the toughness of the game and our middles - the big forwards - laid that platform at the start of the match.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2022
But, despite Brouwer's objections, math is a world of either/or a world of sharp divides, a world of excluded middles, a stripped-down version of experience.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2022
Doors in the middles of all the cars, except the last one, slid open with a whir and a BONG! chime.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
Another dot next, middled to cover, then a single to square leg.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016
Watson skims a drive through the covers for a couple; that's the first one he's vaguely middled.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2012
Khawaja middled the ball to mid-on, although he was not perfectly positioned.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2011
He was ane that middled with maist things in the parish, they said.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)
This lashing is middled, and passed opposite ways; when finished, the ends appear as if coiled round the crossings.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
The film opens Friday and has received middling reviews.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Whether it’s the senior analyst, the aging character actor, or the middling sports columnist at a financial newspaper, one must never underestimate a youthful competitor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
It’s also a full 22 points above Los Angeles, which has a middling score of 69.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
In so much of modern cinema, “fun” has replaced “safe,” a new adjective with a better connotation meant to save middling films from themselves.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
"Tristran?" asked his father, who at five and thirty was still middling tall and still freckled, although there were more than a few silvering hairs in his nut-brown curls.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
