MIDDLE in a Sentence

Learn MIDDLE from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For MIDDLE, below is one of 315 sentences:
She was born in the middle of a week when frenzied excitement gripped Atlanta and the air was tense with expectation of disaster.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIDDLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
middle
 n.  the position at an equal distance from the sides
 a.  in or nearly in the center
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She gave him a last nod of sympathy while her son chirped to the horse; and Ethan, as she drove off, stood in the middle of the road and stared after the retreating sleigh.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  In the middle of the floor stood her trunk, and on the trunk she sat in her Sunday dress, her back turned to the door and her face in her hands.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clay fields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middle Georgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  What a young miss could do and what she could not do were as different as black and white in Mammy's mind; there was no middle ground of deportment between.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  True, the Yankees under Grant had been besieging Vicksburg since the middle of May.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  The spurred horse went off as though on springs and Scarlett was left standing in the middle of the street with the red dust thick upon her ankles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  And he rested them there till the middle of November and then he lit out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  Any man who'd leave a woman stranded between two armies in the middle of the night, just to go off and fight for a Cause already lost, deserved hanging.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  She was born in the middle of a week when frenzied excitement gripped Atlanta and the air was tense with expectation of disaster.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
11  Georgia had taken his youth and his middle years for a crime that was no crime to him, yet he had freely given a leg and an eye to Georgia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  She opened it at the middle and began to read in a clear monotonous voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  Perhaps, if she paid off the team drivers and Hugh early, they would go home and leave her and Ashley alone in the square little office in the middle of the lumber yard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
14  She drew back with a shiver from the pleasant paths in which her thoughts had been straying, and set her feet once more in the middle of the long white road.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
15  She advanced noiselessly over the dense old rug scattered with easy-chairs, and before she reached the middle of the room she saw that she had not been mistaken.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (105 in 8 pages)
16  Let's split the cost right down the middle.
17  A middle course is the safest.
18  Take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle.
19  Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground.
20  In the middle of the picnic it started to rain cats and dogs,and everybody got soaked.
21  I feel lonelier in the middle of London than I do on my boat in the middle of nowhere.
22  The film was so boring that I dozed off in the middle of it.
23  They dwelt in the middle of the forest.
24  His picture was right / bang in the middle of the front page.
25  The UN peace envoy has failed to find any middle ground between the government and the opposition parties.
26  Her hair was parted in the middle.
27  She dived in and bobbed up a few seconds later in the middle of the pool.
28  The leading man broke his leg in the middle of rehearsals.
29  The company has weak middle management and poor internal communication.
30  On one occasion, she called me in the middle of the night.