middle

[ˈmɪdl]

Definition:
1. The part of something that is at an equal distance from all its edges or sides; a point or a period of time between the beginning and the end of something.
2. An area that is approximately central within some larger region.
3. An intermediate part or section.

Use 'middle' in a sentence:

1. He favoured a middle course between free enterprise and state intervention.
2. On one occasion, she called me in the middle of the night.
3. All those people in the middle are dispensable.
4. Their music is very middle-of-the-road.
5. This message caused perturbation in the Middle East Headquarters.
6. His fan base is mostly middle-aged ladies.
7. They were in the middle of dinner when I called.
8. He was standing plumb in the middle of the road.
9. I woke up in the middle of the night and could hear a tapping on the window.
10. He was always in the middle of a business transaction.
11. He was of middle height, thick-set.
12. It's a bit hectic. I'm in the middle of cooking for nine people.
13. He parts his hair in the middle.
14. I'm in the middle of writing a difficult letter.
15. At age fifty-three, he now has a few extra pounds around his middle.
16. He came from a perfectly respectable middle-class family.
17. Their apartment is slap bang in the middle of town.
18. Aim for the middle of the target.
19. His informants were middle-class professional women.
20. She knew he was in his middle fifties, although he looked much younger.
21. The country was split down the middle over the strike (= half supported it, half did not) .
22. The phone rang in the middle of the night.
23. Her novels are middle-aged and boring.
24. His eyes were fixed on a small house in the middle distance.
25. It was middle-class votes they were pitching for.
26. The country was split down the middle over the strike.
27. I should have finished by the middle of the week.
28. If the conservatives are not removed, then the party will almost certainly split down the middle.
29. Women were burned as witches in the Middle Ages.
30. It was now the middle of November, cold and often foggy.
31. This chicken isn't cooked in the middle.
32. To tell the truth, I fell asleep in the middle of her talk.
33. The success in the Middle East redounds to his benefit.
34. His middle name is Justin.
35. Take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle .
36. A car stood double-parked almost in the middle of the road.
37. Hyde accelerated away from the kerb, swerving out into the middle of the street.
38. He grabbed her around the middle.
39. His picture was right/bang (= exactly) in the middle of the front page.
40. I am sitting on the cusp of middle age.
41. It was a brave decision to change tack in the middle of the project.
42. Take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle.
43. A car alarm went off in the middle of the night.
44. They agreed to split the bill down the middle.
45. He was standing in the middle of the room.
46. The middle button of his uniform jacket was strained over his belly.
47. The magazine is very middle-class.
48. The middle decades of the 19th century marked a watershed in Russia's history.
49. 'Patience' is my middle name!
50. Howard stood in the middle of the room sipping a cup of coffee.
51. Where three roads diverge take the middle branch.
52. The Mayor of Jerusalem has tried to minimise conflict by maintaining a middle way between the various religions.
53. His middle son died in a drowning accident five years back.
54. The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class.
55. The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of the earth.
56. The cook's apron covered her middle.
57. She's the middle child of three.
58. Politics is still dominated by the middle-class mafia.
59. The opening paragraph invokes a vision of England in the early Middle Ages.
60. Reform is popular with middle-class liberals.
61. It landed smack in the middle of the carpet.
62. The guests were mostly middle-aged men talking business.
63. I went on competing till I was in my middle forties.
64. The skill is in steering a middle course between the two extremes.
65. Pens are kept in the middle drawer.
66. The village has a history going back to the Middle Ages.
67. Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground.
68. The curtains don't meet in the middle.
69. In the Middle Ages England waged war on France.
70. Middle children tend to get lost in the shuffle.
71. Men tend to put on weight in middle age.
72. The ballet company now occupies the middle ground between classical ballet and modern dance.
73. Stay indoors in the middle of the day, when the sun is strongest.
74. She lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere.
75. Middle East peace talks reopen in Washington on Wednesday.