INTERMEDIATE in a Sentence

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The ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising intermediate means of overtaking the chase.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTERMEDIATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intermediate
 a.  middle; lying between two extremes
Classic Sentence:
1  Having written to Joe, to offer him consolation, and to assure him that I would come to the funeral, I passed the intermediate days in the curious state of mind I have glanced at.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXV
2  I was to go home next night; not by the mail, but by the heavy night-coach, which was called the Farmer, and was principally used by country-people travelling short intermediate distances upon the road.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
3  The Russian fashion of match-making by the offices of intermediate persons was for some reason considered unseemly; it was ridiculed by every one, and by the princess herself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
4  Their destination was one of the little restaurants overhanging the boulevard which dips steeply down from Monte Carlo to the low intermediate quarter along the quay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
5  A division which, in the whale, is much like halving an apple; there is no intermediate remainder.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.
6  The ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising intermediate means of overtaking the chase.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
7  From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind, that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
8  In passing from the bucolic to the intellectual life the intermediate stages are usually two at least, frequently many more; and one of those stages is almost sure to be worldly advanced.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
9  The intermediate course of giving it to Eustacia was the sort of thing to please Wildeve's fancy.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool
10  He was in an intermediate state between sleeping and waking; at variance with himself, with his company, with the country, and with the government.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
11  Its windows opening to the ground, admitted a most refreshing view of the high woody hills behind the house, and of the beautiful oaks and Spanish chestnuts which were scattered over the intermediate lawn.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45
12  They attached themselves, without intermediate shades, to incorruptible right and absolute duty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Example Sentence:
1  Gray is intermediate between black and white.
2  You should consider breaking the journey with intermediate stopovers at airport hotels.
3  They are all from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands.