How to Use Middle America in a Sentence

Middle America

noun
  • And Middle America is excellent for thrift stores with rare finds.
    Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • On Friday night, a storm spawned tornadoes across much of Middle America, with Kentucky taking the brunt of the damage.
    Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2021
  • That’s the mystery, and it’s resolved in a way that puts a haunting cast of mythology over the spiritual despair of Middle America.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 June 2022
  • From my perspective, in this industry, we had been told time and again that our stories wouldn’t connect with Middle America.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Biden’s 2024 reëlection campaign looks to be about co-opting Trumpism, with its angry but compelling pitch to the voters of Middle America about the unfairness of it all.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Even research into the impact of water on landlocked Middle America has shown that the Great Lakes have a positive influence on health.
    Kaelyn Lynch, Outside Online, 8 June 2020
  • Acute heat waves in Middle America, some of which can last for days and weeks, are becoming more common under a warming climate, scientists say.
    Daniel Cusick, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The press speculation is that the new company is focusing more on what’s seen as ‘Middle America’ content.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Bryan responded the show would not be greenlit today because Hollywood seems to have stopped catering to Middle America.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
  • Three Billboards was savaged in some corners as a depiction of Middle America written by someone who had clearly never spent much time there.
    Vulture, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Finding out that inflation is even worse in Japan may be little consolation to the average voter in Middle America still struggling with the high cost of living.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 27 June 2023
  • Skateboarders have taken over Middle America this week.
    Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
  • But for the most part, since Mr. Trump left office, his business has focused on appealing to Middle America, not buyers of luxury condos or multimillionaire investors.
    New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Kendra Scott exploded first throughout what is somewhat paternalistically known as Middle America before then spilling into coastal markets, in part on the wings of social media platforms.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Some stations use new tools to draw in a listening audience, and millennials are increasingly seeking out more affordable (and plentiful) living space in Middle America.
    Sarah Baird, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Given those realities, pro-life leaders and organizations should focus their energy and resources on the hard work of persuading Middle America and changing public sentiment in the states, where the issue will be contested.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Raised in Middle America by loving middle-class parents—his father is an entomologist, his mother a bank official—in the booming middle decades of the twentieth century, Joe is driven by aspirations to be a writer.
    Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
  • For all his virtuosity, Wallace specialized in erudite neurotics from Middle America who suffer from various degrees of mental illness.
    Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022

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